Summary Oscar winning actress Anne Hathaway (worth $35 million) is sad because she's losing roles to younger women, even though she admits that she benefited from this when she was younger.

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http://www.avclub.com/article/anne-hathaway-says-shes-losing-roles-24-year-olds-224857

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Anne Hathaway is sad.

An Academy Award, a net worth of $35 million and three films in the works are apparently not enough for her. She has taken to Glamour to talk about the fact that she's losing out on roles to younger actresses:

“I can’t complain about it because I benefited from it,” she said. “When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them…And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24-year-old get that part?’”

Hamster translation: I don't care if I benefited from this less than 10 years ago. I've hit the wall and it's not fair that Hollywood, an industry that has been based almost solely on looks since its inception, is making decisions based on looks alone!

Anne is not the only actress that feels this way:

“By the time you’re 28, you’re expired, you’re playing mommy roles,” Zoe Saldana said in 2014

18 - 20 roles since she turned 28. The wall is real and she STILL gets action roles such as Star Trek and Avatar. Never enough...

Maggie Gyllenhaal, at the age of 37, was told she was too old to play a love interest opposite a 55-year-old man

Maybe it's just because she's way past the wall and nobody wants to see her fucking someone? She'll blame anyone but herself.

At the start of 2015, Meryl Streep and Jessica Chastain both spoke out against the ageism and sexism in Hollywood that makes it difficult for older women to land parts

This is the same Jessica Chastain that has four movies in production and has been in six more since the end of 2012. When will it be enough? For Meryl Streep, apparently her five movies that have been released since 2012 and two currently in production are not enough. Oh yeah, and her two academy award nominations in the last two years...

Maybe Russel Crowe said it best:

I think you’ll find that the woman who is saying that [the roles have dried up] is the woman who at 40, 45, 48, still wants to play the ingénue, and can’t understand why she’s not being cast as the 21-year-old. Meryl Streep will give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why that’s bullshit, so will Helen Mirren, or whoever it happens to be. If you are willing to live in your own skin, you can work as an actor. If you are trying to pretend that you’re still the young buck when you’re my age, it just doesn’t work.

Lesson Learned

For women - even women at the absolute peak of their careers - it will never, ever be enough.