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Andie MacDowell: Aging makes getting good movie roles tough

Jason Sandford June 18, 2009

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Andie and Nibbles 5 Photo by Jason Sandford

Associate Press story here:

SHANGHAI (AP) — “Four Weddings and a Funeral” star Andie MacDowell says her 40s were an awkward time partly because Hollywood filmmakers didn’t know how to cast the veteran American actress.

The 51-year-old actress hasn’t had a big hit since a string of commercial successes in the early and mid-1990s, including “Groundhog Day,” “Michael,” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”

She said Thursday that while she didn’t have trouble finding work in her 40s, American filmmakers may have had trouble finding good roles for her.

“In America, there’s such a hunger for young people, so you get the young up-and-coming star. And then it becomes a time period when they really don’t know what to do with you or how to use you,” MacDowell told The Associated Press in an interview in Shanghai, where she is serving as a juror at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival.

“And then it changes, I think, after 50 — then you become — ‘I’m the mother of the 20-year-old.’ So I’m hoping there’s going to be a shift again and I’ll work more,” she said.

“I think you have to stay open and flexible and look for opportunities and not be arrogant,” she said. “You’re so used to being the lead or the hot thing. I think a lot of people get stuck in that moment. And I’m not really stuck in that moment. I just want to participate.”

Jason Sandford

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5 Comments

Bulldog June 24, 2009

Acting? Are we talking about acting? Meyrl Streep cannot hold a candle to Andie in one department. She owns an Academy Award-Winning Rack.

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Miss Daisy June 18, 2009

Aging? Or unable to act her way out of a paper bag? She is gorgeous, and she is aging beautifully. I bet she conducts herself very well professionally. I think it is cool that she lives here. I love that she gets involved in local and outside charities. I bet she is a good mom. I have all kinds of nice things to say about her. About her acting ability: not so much.

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Andrew June 18, 2009

Age has nothing to do with it. See Meryl Streep, among a host of others. With all due respect to our local in house "celebrity", she’s an ex-model turned generic B Actress. Why Asheville has a hard-on for the life & times of this woman beats the hell out of me. And the fact that she claims to be a method actor is an insult to both Stanislavski and method acting in general.

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Emily June 18, 2009

ENOUGH please of posts about Andie McDowell !!

The fact that her career has peaked is very old news.

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WholeNutterThang June 18, 2009

So does being a bad actor.

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