When “Hacks” star Jean Good accepted her Golden Globe for lead actress in a comedy sequence on Sunday — her third of 4 nominations for her position on the HBO Max comedy — she joked from the stage of the Beverly Hilton ballroom “what can I say? I’m a grasping bitch.”
Which may be debatable. However it’s true that Good, at age 74, was one of many oldest appearing winners of the night time. Stellan Skarsgård, who’s a barely older 74, obtained the male supporting actor in a movement image Golden Globe for “Sentimental Worth.” He acknowledged this when he stated in his acceptance speech that “I in fact was not ready for this, as a result of I assumed that I used to be too previous.”
Backstage within the press room, Good had some, nicely, slightly sensible phrases about ageing within the business.
“Any person informed me, years and years in the past after I first obtained to LA, that there was one position for a lady for each 20 roles per man, which was actually miserable,” she stated. “Additionally they stated that the typical age distinction between a husband and a spouse in america is just a little hair over two years, and on the display screen, it’s 20. So I’m unsure we’ll ever get previous that.”
Nonetheless, she stated, “I believe rather a lot has modified” although she additionally stated “I hate to suppose I’m the poster little one for older actresses.”
Different Boomer illustration on the ceremony included Kathy Bates, who was nominated for feminine actor in a TV drama sequence for CBS’ “Matlock,” and composers Alexandre Desplat (“Frankenstein”) and Hans Zimmer (“F1”), who have been each nominated for movie rating.