--- title: Jessica Lange: Hollywood Uniformly Run From 'Male Point of View' description: Actress Jessica Lange expressed little surprise that a movie studio reportedly turned down 37-year-old actress Maggie Gyllenhaal as "too old," declaring that the entire movie making industry was run from a "male point of view." canonical: https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-22T20:39:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:03.256Z og:title: Jessica Lange Says Hollywood Is Run From a 'Male Point of View' og:description: "It’s a fantasy that has nothing to do with reality” og:url: https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt933af36c0be2689a/69885175f887dc0a62e909b2/jssica-lange.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Paley Center For Media's 32nd Annual PALEYFEST LA - "American Horror Story: Freak Show" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jessica Lange Says Hollywood Is Run From a 'Male Point of View' twitter:description: "It’s a fantasy that has nothing to do with reality” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt933af36c0be2689a/69885175f887dc0a62e909b2/jssica-lange.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jessica Lange Says Hollywood Is Run From a 'Male Point of View' ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey May 22, 2015 8:39 PM CUT  Jessica Lange attends the "American Horror Story: Freak Show" event at the 32nd annual PaleyFest at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 15, 2015 Jessica Lange attends the "American Horror Story: Freak Show" event at the 32nd annual PaleyFest at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 15, 2015Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey May 22, 2015 8:39 PM CUT Actress Jessica Lange expressed little surprise that a movie studio [reportedly](http://time.com/3892100/maggie-gyllenhaal-hollywood-sexism/ "undefined") turned down 37-year-old actress Maggie Gyllenhaal as “too old,” declaring that the entire movie making industry was run from a “male point of view.” “Even if a woman runs a studio, she still does it with a male point of view,” Lange, the lead actor on the FX series _American Horror Story_, said in an [interview](http://www.thewrap.com/jessica-lange-hollywood-is-run-with-male-point-of-view-even-by-women/?utm%5Fsource=newsletter&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=mailchimp "undefined") with _TheWrap._ “That men continue to be fascinating and attractive and virile, and women age and are no longer sexual or beautiful ,” she said. “It’s a fantasy that has nothing to do with reality.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/"},"headline":"Jessica Lange Says Hollywood Is Run From a 'Male Point of View'","datePublished":"2015-05-22T20:39:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:03.256Z","description":"\"Even if a woman runs a studio, she still does it with a male point of view.\"","url":"https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/","keywords":["Living","feminism","Television","movies","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt933af36c0be2689a/69885175f887dc0a62e909b2/jssica-lange.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt933af36c0be2689a/69885175f887dc0a62e909b2/jssica-lange.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Paley Center For Media's 32nd Annual PALEYFEST LA - \"American Horror Story: Freak Show\"","caption":"The Paley Center For Media's 32nd Annual PALEYFEST LA - \"American Horror Story: Freak Show\"","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3894945/jessica-lange-hollywood-sexism-ageism/","name":"Jessica Lange Says Hollywood Is Run From a 'Male Point of View'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. 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