Marcia Cross does not want to give in to the call of the scalpel.
The heroine of
Desperate Housewives
spoke about her fight against youthism at this stage of her career in an interview with the newspaper
Le Parisien
, published on Wednesday March 22.
Asked by our colleague about her recent auditions and her potential next screen roles, the actress frankly shares her doubts and uncertainties.
"They don't offer me a lot anymore.
I have just started going a little behind the camera, I give lessons too.
I open doors to new experiences.
I don't know what the future holds for me,” she says.
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The “pressure” not to age
The journalist then asks the actress in her sixties if it is more difficult to find roles in Hollywood rather than in Europe “for actresses of [her] age”.
"Absolutely, and it's unfortunate," she admits, castigating the prevailing standards of beauty in the American film industry.
"Because we shouldn't all look the same, have puffy lips and a perfect chin.
There is a pressure about not aging.
I almost got my face lift recently because I feel like everyone does it.
I changed my mind, but maybe I will one day, ”she concedes.
From the height of her 60 years, she claims to have made peace with her image today: “I feel good in my body, which has not always been the case.
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Marcia Cross in the newspaper "Le Parisien"
The interpreter of Kimberly Shaw in
Melrose Place
concludes the interview by regretting, however, inequalities of treatment vis-à-vis his male colleagues.
“Men continue to work with age, but for women it's more and more complicated.
The problem is that we don't want to face the passage of time, face death, especially in the United States, ”she laments.
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