Identify: Romcom age limits.
Age: 60.
Look: Twinkly (however barely much less twinkly than earlier than).
Are we certain we needs to be doing this? We’re going to get hammered for ageism, absolutely. Nah, it’s wonderful.
Actually? We’re positively going to get letters. No, it might be improper and offensive if we had been those saying that folks had been too outdated to be in romcoms. However we’re not. We’re simply reporting on issues that folks in romcoms say.
Oh actually? Like who? Like George Clooney. “Look, I’m 63 years outdated. I’m not making an attempt to compete with 25-year-old main males,” he instructed 60 Minutes just lately. “I’m not doing romantic movies any extra.”
However wasn’t he simply in a romantic movie? You’re pondering of Ticket to Paradise, the movie he made in 2022 when he was nonetheless a horny younger 60-year-old whippersnapper.
So he wouldn’t make that in the present day? No, are you kidding? He’s 63, for heaven’s sake. Don’t be ridiculous.
Nicely, what about Hugh Grant? He’s 64, and he was simply in a romcom. You imply Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy?
Sure. Nicely, you’re form of proper. However he wasn’t the love curiosity, and his character was form of pathetic for the entire thing. If we’re taking part in by the principles, Grant hasn’t been the star of an precise romcom since The Rewrite, which got here out in 2014, when he was a spritely 54.
Come on, there have to be somebody. Matthew McConaughey? Nicely, he’s solely 55 and, due to this fact, nonetheless properly throughout the Clooney Romcom Zone of Acceptability. However guess what? The final romcom he made was Ghosts of Girlfriends Previous, and that got here out in 2009, when he was nonetheless in his 30s (simply).
I’m so conflicted. Inform me methods to really feel about this. Nicely, you have to be happy – it’s ugly to look at males of their seventh decade chasing round ladies younger sufficient to be their daughters, which is often the romcom dynamic.
OK, good. Additionally, since Grant has moved away from romcoms, he’s made Heretic and Paddington 2, whereas McConaughey has embraced grittier elements in Interstellar and True Detective. One of the best work of their careers, in different phrases.
Wait! There’s additionally Dustin Hoffman! Oh sure, he was in Final Probability Harvey when he was 71, and that was pleasant. Plus, he starred reverse Emma Thompson!
However she was solely 49 when it got here out, which continues to be younger. However then she was in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, which got here out in June 2022, at which level she was …
63! Sure! The identical age that George Clooney is now!
So we’re saying that Thompson is proof that over-60s can nonetheless be in romcoms. Sure, and likewise proof that she will be able to do no matter she needs and everybody can be thrilled.
Do say: “George Clooney has determined he’s too outdated for romcoms.”
Don’t say: “However not too outdated for these espresso adverts, sadly.”
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