“I have the right to advance in age, to grow old. But I felt that the cinema did not allow it to me. I had reached a pivotal age where one changes jobs,” declared Emmanuelle Béart. An observation that seems to share Sheila, even though the septuagenarian artist is not ready to lower the gloves. To hear it, ageism is a cultural phenomenon. “If I were American, I would be treated like a diva. I am French, and therefore, I am discarded because too old. I could sing the best songs in the world, that would not change anything!”, Laments- she. To read it, this phenomenon does not affect his male colleagues, like Alain Souchon.
Ageism, a French phenomenon? However, also across the Atlantic, this exclusion is widely studied and criticized. Familiar voices highlight this systematic discrimination, especially within the entertainment world. So we recently heard the fifty-year-old actress Halle Berry criticize the Hollywood industry. “It used to be when you were 40 your career was over … and I mean really over. That must be changing,” exclaimed the actress, who in her latest film (and first as as a director), plays an MMA fighter.
“The job of showbiz is actually a job for guys. Girls are very complicated. A woman doesn’t have the right to age. We can make the most beautiful albums, you don’t hear them in radio “, already declared Sheila at the microphone of Sud Radio, recalls Pure Charts.
“The famous image of the ‘glass ceiling’ covers the issue of the fiftieth. It’s an understatement that conceals something of the order of ageism. For men, this is the moment when, if all goes well , you are reaching the peak of your career. Not for women, “explained the feminist philosophy and professor of political science Camille Froidevaux-Metterie. A sad state of affairs.
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