It’s no secret that Hollywood hasn’t traditionally been type to girls over 50. The additional you get from the age of 25 in any public-facing job (and private-facing, really, and never solely in Hollywood—enjoyable!), the nearer you get to being unceremoniously sidelined. Not a lot for the 50-plus girls on the 2025 Golden Globes, who emerged as this 12 months’s primary characters. From splashy red-carpet dressing (Nicole Kidman in Balenciaga, Viola Davis in Gucci, Pamela Anderson in Oscar de la Renta) to the trophies themselves (Jodie Foster, Demi Moore, and Jean Good all acquired gongs), this 12 months proved that Hollywood’s bizarre obsession with youth is lastly beginning to get just a little outdated.
It wasn’t simply that loads of older girls received awards, although, or shut down the crimson carpet. They have been those making the statements. Pamela Anderson, 57, has persistently gone make-up free since 2023. “No stylist, no glam group, it’s simply me,” she advised Selection on the crimson carpet. (Wild {that a} lady displaying up along with her regular face is taken into account stunning, however that is the place we’re at.) And in a form of life-imitates-art however the inverse, 62-year-old actress Demi Moore picked up a greatest efficiency award for her memorable flip in Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror The Substance, by which she performs a “fading” Hollywood star who’s promptly dropped from her TV slot upon turning 50.
“Folks at all times ask for one thing new. At 50, it stops,” she’s advised by an exec within the movie. In actual life, nevertheless, Moore’s undergone all method of inventive rebirths.
