Hollywood has a problem and her name is Jennifer Lawrence

Are you allergic to mature women in the most commercial cinema? Critics regret that the talented actress gets nominations year after year playing women with an average age of 40, when she is barely 25.

Every Hollywood actress has the day to toast her last 'fuckable' day in the industry. Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette and Julia Louis-Dreyfus know this well, they did it with great pleasure in Last Fuckable Day, the epic sketch of the Amy Schumer show where the three of them laughed (so as not to cry) at that moment in which the media decides that you will no longer be the hot girl or the sexy woman of the moment. No one will want to pick you up on screen because they will only cast you as a devoted mother or mother-in-law. It will be when a new batch of fresh young girls, closer to 20 than 30, are the ones who can play middle-aged women with middle-aged women's problems. Girls playing women who can benefit men in their forties and fifties playing men in their forties and fifties. This is, broadly speaking, what happens to Jennifer Lawrence. When she's not playing the heroines of dystopian sagas and putting herself under the command of David O. Russell, one of the most beloved and talented actresses in commercial cinema has unwittingly become the embodiment of ageism (age discrimination) in Hollywood.

Jennifer Lawrence is 25 years old but in her latest film, Joy –with which she has won a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a comedy or musical–, she plays Joy Mangano, a divorced housewife and mother of three children who spent from nothing to being a billionaire after inventing The Miracle Mop, a kind of mop that revolutionized the market in the late 90s. Mangano was 33 years old when he invented it, and apparently, most of the film places the action after your achievement. A fact that has not gone unnoticed by critics, who have been lamenting for some time that the young actress, every time she works with O'Russell, plays mature women between 30 and 40 years old. When she was 21 she starred in The Good Side of Things, where she played the role of a widow whose husband had died three years earlier. Her character in her original novel is 39 years old but it was nothing shocking to the critics of the academy, who decided to award her the Oscar. Then she would come The Great American Swindle, where she played a housewife and mother based on Cynthia Weinberg, a woman who was in her early forties when the events described in the film took place.

Aren't there actresses in their 30s and 40s for those roles? That has been asked in many publications and it has been done so many times that even Lawrence has had to step in to clarify to the New York Times that David O'Rusell is to blame. “He has his own visions of him, he lives in his own wonderful world of his. These stupid questions don't matter to him. That's not to say that he wasn't old enough for The Great American Hustle. And of course he was very young in The Good Side of Things. For that reason he almost didn't get the role," she explained.

The actress, who has raised her voice to "charge the same as my colleagues with a penis", does not get wet in front of the Hollywood mania of perpetuating the image of supposedly 40-year-old women, but who look like they are in their twenties. It is an open secret. Isabel Coixet recently confirmed this, when in an interview in La Ser she explained that the producers of Learning to Drive asked her "several times" if the character of Patricia Clarkson (a 50-year-old woman) could be played by "an actress of 35". Maggie Gyllenhaal (37 years old) was also told that she was too old to be the mistress of a 50-year-old man. Even Anne Hathaway, only 32 years old, she regrets all this. «Before I didn't complain because it didn't affect me and it benefited me. When I was in my early twenties, roles were written for me of middle-aged women and I took them. Now that I'm in my early thirties, I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old girl get that role? I was 24 once and I can't get mad. So are the things".