: Only 25.3% of characters aged 50 and over are women. Men in this age bracket outnumber women by nearly 4 to 1 in films and 3 to 1 in broadcast television.

When we see commanding a room in Black Panther , or Helen Mirren leading a heist in Red or playing a fierce warrior in the Fast & Furious franchise, it expands the idea of what is possible for women in the real world. It tells the audience that your value does not expire.

It was the sound of an audience beginning to return.