Melanie Griffith is speaking out about negative side of Hollywood while promoting her upcoming film Dark Tourist. She said she hasn’t been offered nearly as many roles since turning 50 than she did in the early days of her career and she blames it on superficiality.
“It is what I never thought would happen when I was in my 20s and 30s, hearing actresses b-tch about not getting any work when they turned 50. Now I understand it, it is just different. In a lot of ways, (Hollywood) a very superficial place,” she told FOX 411.
“It is all about youth and beauty, for women anyway. You just have to keep biting and pushing your way through, doing theater. I believe in just being really good and working on my craft which is how I started in the first place. I really like that as opposed to the fame part of it.”
Griffith is the daughter of actress Tippi Hendren and she’s married to actor Antonio Banderas. She said when it comes to scripts, “not that I get that much stuff anymore,” but the scripts she reads that Banderas gets are “so sh**ty and stupid and superficial” now.
She also disses the movies today in general, saying she doesn’t “go to the movies these days because there is nothing to see.”
Daily Mail notes that Griffith also made headlines for bringing her ex-husband, Steven Bauer, to the premiere of Dark Tourist. They were married from 1982 to 1987 and have a 28-year-old son named Alex together.
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