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When Covid Dropped the Curtain on Broadway Actors, TV Kept the Lights On New and returning TV series like “The Gilded Age” and “The Good Fight” have been a lifeline for celebrated theater actors during the pandemic. Will TV, or theater, ever look the same? Denée Benton, left, and Louisa Jacobson during filming of the coming HBO historical drama “The Gilded Age.” Benton is one many celebrated stage actors in the cast.Credit.Alison Rosa/HBO May 12, 2021 Back in March, the actress Kelli O’Hara arrived on Rhode Island’s Gold Coast. A company of theater heroes, with enough combined Tonys to crowd a mansion’s mantels, met her there. “It was almost like Broadway said, ‘We’re shutting down,’” O’Hara recalled during a recent telephone interview. “So 20 of us got together and said, ‘Let’s go do a play in a seaside town.’” ....
“Women definitely do get cast younger as moms, even in their early 20s,” she said. “I find men usually don’t start getting cast as dads until at least mid-30s. “There are the actresses early on who know they’re going to be the character actress, and they kind of age into that. And then there are the young, beautiful ingenues, and I do find that they start doing the botox and plastic surgery.” But Estrin believes it is starting to change, especially as more women get behind the camera and into positions of power in Hollywood. “As women are finding their voices right now and becoming stronger and stronger, this is the exact sort of thing that they’re fighting against,” she added. “We’re in a really great time for women to be standing up and saying no to roles [that] don’t feel age-appropriate to them.” ....