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'A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20': the new era of age-blind casting by Emma John

Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are things finally changing? Geraldine James was on her way to play a grandmother in the BBC drama This Town when her agent messaged. "I was on the train to Birmingham," remembers the 74-year-old. "And I got a text that said, 'The RS…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AM on August 14, 2024

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