In 1962, Judy Garland received an Oscar nomination for her role in Judgment at Nuremberg and regarded it as an auspicious restart for her career. Judy, the new film starring Renée Zellweger, recounts the sad ending that she was heading for instead. The star of Judy is herself re-emerging from a hiatus: one that was caused by the same maladies afflicting old Hollywood that the movie depicts. But for every hard-earned movie project that serves the age demographic well by telling a complicated story about old age, Hollywood churns out two Schwarzenegger movies with tag lines like, “Retirement is for sissies”. Photograph: ITV/RexIn the past, small- to mid-budget projects have been the most welcoming to older stars.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 12:22 UTC