Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and MaxThroughout Hollywood’s history, an older actress was often only given a few options for roles: She could play a matron (Doubt), an abhorrent sexual predator (Notes on a Scandal, Misery), or a horror’s hag, a figure that goes as far back in Hollywood’s history as 1950’s Sunset Boulevard and still persists today (2022’s Barbarian and X). If none of those appealed, she could bow out of the limelight once she was “past her prime,
Carrie, like all the women on the “Sex and the City” reboot, needs to drop the self-hatred and take a page from Samantha’s book: Women of all ages are sexy.