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That – a former model who in 1989 achieved international fame in a Steven Soderbergh film called – might still be considered aspirational at 66 years of age is not an inconceivable turn of events. (She has always been hot.) And yet in an industry whose predilection for youth is a long-standing and widely-acknowledged phenomenon, it’s a point that still bears repeating.

MacDowell – who first appeared in the pages of American in the early ’80s – is among a number of actors at this year’s challenging the idea that young adulthood is the most privileged (and bankable) period in a person’s life. That is due, at least in part, to the clothes in her wardrobe: buttery leather macs and platform mules, outsized boyfriend shirts and wide-legged jeans, each look worn with the kind of face-shielding sunglasses that prescriptivists would deem “mutton”. See also: and (61) and (71) and (86) – all of whom have garnered a not insignificant number of headlines with their appearances on the Croisette.



“I think it’s more interesting to see me like this,” MacDowell said back in 2021, when she was discussing her decision to “ ” her natural greys on the red carpet at Cannes. “I suffered in this business as an actress always having people wanting me to look younger. For me, it kind of hurts my heart that I can’t embrace where I am because, honestly, I feel like I am enough right where I am.

I don’t want people to have the expectation that I need to look younger t.

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