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Sideshow: Anne Hathaway: Too old for Hollywood?

At 32, actor Anne Hathaway is already over the limit by two years. Face it: She's too old for Hollywood.

Emma Thompson stars as Cythina Bryson with Robert Redford as Bill Bryson and   in "A Walk in the Woods."
Emma Thompson stars as Cythina Bryson with Robert Redford as Bill Bryson and in "A Walk in the Woods."Read more

Anne Hathaway on ageism

At 32, actor Anne Hathaway is already over the limit by two years.

Face it: She's too old for Hollywood.

At least, that's how Hathaway feels lately. She says she is losing roles to younger women.

"I can't complain about it because I benefited from it. When I was in my early 20s, parts would be written for women in their 50s and I would get them," Hathaway tells Glamour UK. "And now I'm in my early 30s and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' "

It's not all doom and gloom. "All I can do right now is think that thankfully you have built up perhaps a little bit of cachet and can tell stories that interest you," adds Hathaway.

Whoa! Emma Thompson is 56

Not sure Emma Thompson would feel all that sorry for Hathaway. At 56, the brilliant Brit thesp is victim to the film industry's double standard when it comes to casting couples: The women always are decades younger.

"The age thing is insane. It was ever thus. I remember saying years and years ago, when I was 35, that they'd have to exhume somebody to play my leading man," Thompson, who plays the wife of 79-year-old Robert Redford in the just-released movie A Walk in the Woods, tells Vulture.

"Nothing's changed in that regard. If anything, it's got worse. . . . I remember somebody saying to me that I was too old for Hugh Grant, who's like a year younger than me. . . . I said, 'Do you want to go take a flying leap?' "

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