'Ageing is a quality for women, we don’t just fade away': Kristin Scott Thomas, 59, REFUSES to say thank you when people compliment her on looking good for her age
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas has refused to say ‘thank you’ when someone compliments her on looking good for her age.
The 59-year-old actress, has told how she is tired of the assumption that women ‘fade away’ after they reach 50.
‘I’m fed up of having to say “thank you” when someone says I’ve still got it,’ she told Radio Times.
Defiant: Dame Kristin Scott Thomas has refused to say ‘thank you’ when someone compliments her on looking good for her age
The Darkest Hour went on to state that just because a woman gets older, she doesn't just disappear and fade into the background.
‘Ageing is a quality for women, she continued. 'We don’t just fade away. I don’t put up with any bull**** any more. I’ve never been happier.’
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The celebrated star of The English Patient and Four Weddings And A Funeral was last year praised for her description of what it means to be a woman during her cameo in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Her character Belinda was a businesswoman who said that ‘women are born with pain built in’ and that their ‘physical destiny’ is ‘period pains, sore boobs, childbirth’.
The way she was: The 59-year-old actress, has told how she is tired of the assumption that women ‘fade away’ after they reach 50 (pictured in 1991)
‘I’m super grateful to Phoebe for articulating my own personal frustration with the way women are treated as they age,’ she said.
The actress, who was appointed the honorary president of the Women’s Economic Forum last October, will star in Phedre at the National Theatre this year as well as taking on the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers in an upcoming Netflix adaptation of Rebecca.
Dame Kristin said she started to turn down roles after decades of being expected to play ‘hard but fragile’ on screen.
Rant: ‘I’m fed up of having to say “thank you” when someone says I’ve still got it,’ she told Radio Times (pictured in 2018)
Fellow thespian Maxine Peake has also lamented the limited roles available to women, and criticised the assumption that ‘women act personally, men act politically’.
Maxine, 45, has taken matters into her own hands to write a play for BBC Radio 3, Only Mountains, in which actress Lyndsey Marshal plays Pearl, a woman who joins an all-female militia fighting in Syria.
‘Men who go to fight for a cause are seen as heroes, while women are seen as naive and idealistic,’ she told Radio Times.
Making a stand: ‘Ageing is a quality for women, she continued. 'We don’t just fade away. I don’t put up with any bull**** any more. I’ve never been happier'
Read the full interview in this week's Radio Times
‘And be it telly or film or theatre or whatever, a woman only does something because she’s driven by some event in her life – because she’s lost a child, or she was raped, or her mother died –but a man acts because he’s a man... and that drives me mad.’
It comes after Kristen recently detailed her fury at a director who told her to try and be more 'appealing' as she admitted it made her feel 'so cross'.
The actress detailed the 'situation, without naming the filmmaker in question, to Town & Country, and admitted: 'I was so cross!
'That really rubbed me up the wrong way. It kicked something off in me. Why the hell should I be appealing?
'Why should I be pretty, and sweet, and kind, and nice, and have everybody love me? Why? I'm incredibly grumpy about lots and lots of things.'
Having her say: ‘Men who go to fight for a cause are seen as heroes, while women are seen as naive and idealistic,’ she told Radio Times
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