“I think all of you women understand this as the days, the years, and the numbers get bigger, it seems like opportunities start to get smaller as well,” Yeoh noted in her acceptance speech.
major roles for older women are scarceFor example, only three of the top 100 movies in 2019 featured a leading or co-leading role filled by a woman over 45, according to theIn her acceptance speech for best performance by an actress in a motion picture, Yeoh mentioned she celebrated her 60th birthday last year and — after spending 40 years in the film industry — began to question if her career had plateaued.
“I think all of you women understand this as the days, the years, and the numbers get bigger, it seems like opportunities start to get smaller as well,” she noted.Yeoh’s role as a woman who finds out a version of herself exists in many parallel universes in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” required fight scenes and martial arts skills. She referred to them when she playfully threatened to “beat up” the piano player nudging her to wrap up her speech.
“I had such big dreams and expectations as a younger person, but what happened was they get sort of fizzle by life… you get older and it’s just not happening,” she said. “I just want to say, [“White Lotus” creator] Mike White you’ve given me hope.” Angela Bassett, 64, won for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture for her role as Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The win comes almost 30 years after she received her first Golden Globe for playing Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in 1994.“I think when we take care of ourselves, we do look good for our age, whatever age that is,” she“As we advance, 60 is the new 40, or 70 is the new 50. It keeps getting pushed.
"It’s never too late, whatever the dream is. These women never gave up," added TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager."They kept working."
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