Anne Hathaway: I'm already losing roles to younger actresses

Hollywood's ageism problem is no secret, but more and more actresses are speaking out about their experiences and the hypocrisy of it all. And now you can add Anne Hathaway to that list

The Oscar-winning actress told Glamour UK that, at 32, she's already losing roles to younger actresses. But she also says she can't really complain about it, considering she once benefited from it all:
"I can't complain about it because I benefited from it. When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties and I'm like, 'Why did that 24 year old get that part?' I was that 24 year old once, I can't be upset about it, it's the way things are. 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 and if people go to see them you'll be allowed to make more."
Hathaway joins a list of actresses speaking frankly about ageism including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson. Thompson recently told Vulture:
“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 … 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, in 'Sense and Sensibility'. I said, ‘Do you want to go take a flying leap?’”