Canadian actress Carrie-Anne Moss has opened up about the roles she has been offered since she reached the age of forty…
And clearly, age is not just a number in Hollywood.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is known for her role as the iconic cyber warrior ‘Trinity’ in The Matrix.
She starred alongside Keanu Reeves.
The movie made history as it become one of the highest-grossing sci-fi action franchises of all time.
Moss then began receiving a wide range of scripts but it was the complex screenplay Memento that stirred her creative senses and once she met the then-unknown writer/director Christopher Nolan, she accepted the role of ‘Natalie’ in his directorial debut.
Her remarkable performance won her the coveted Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female that year.
She went ahead and featured in Val Kilmer’s Red Planet for Warner Bros; sweetened Lasse Hallstrom’s multi-Oscar nominated Chocolat for Miramax and tracked Sir Ben Kingsley in Paramount’s Suspect Zero.
She also mothered Shia LaBeouf in DreamWork’s box-office hit Disturbia…
And together with Samuel L. Jackson, led the intense interrogation of Michael Sheen in Sony’s Unthinkable.
Ross then continued to collaborate on independent projects including The Chumscrubber with Ralph Fiennes and Glenn Close, the comedy noir Mini’s First Time…
As well as the touching drama with Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, Fireflies in the Garden in the company of Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, and Willem Defoe, and the retro zombie rom-com Fido along with Billy Connelly and Dylan Baker.
Throughout her career, Ross has joined compelling television projects such as Ryan Murphy’s Pretty Handsome, CBS’s Vegas for James Mangold, and Marvel’s Jessica Jones as ‘Jerry Hogarth’ for showrunner Melissa Rosenberg.
She recently finished acting and also producing in her second season, the bi-lingual English/Norwegian detective crime series Wisting, as an FBI agent set in the Norwegian landscape.
Ross returned once again to star as ‘Trinity’ in the much anticipated fourth installment of Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrection which launched globally in 2021.
But most recently, the actress opened up about her roles since hitting forty.
She said she’d been warned by fellow actors that her opportunities would diminish in her 40s but shrugged off the notion at first.
Ross said: “I don’t believe in just jumping on a thought system that I don’t really align with.”
Sadly, it wasn’t long before she got a reality check.
“Literally the day after my 40th birthday, I was reading a script that had come to me and I was talking to my manager about it,” she recalled.
“She was like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, it’s not that role [you’re reading for], it’s the grandmother.’ I may be exaggerating a bit, but it happened overnight. I went from being a girl to the mother to beyond the mother.”
The actor went on to note that she doesn’t feel men in her industry face the same level of scrutiny.
“You don’t feel like you’ve aged much and suddenly you’re seeing yourself onscreen.
“I would look at these French and European actresses and they just had something about them that felt so confident in their own skin,” Ross continued.
“I couldn’t wait to be that. I strive for that. It’s not easy being in this business,” she added.
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