Middle Age Hollywood

Experts say Angelina’s beauty and strong personality can work against her in romantic comedies, for example.

“She’s too strong, she’s too forceful,” says Hollywood historian David Thomson. “And that’s not just her screen character. It’s her public character, too. She isn’t really sentimentally appealing [for a romantic comedy]. She needs to be doing strong things — crazy things, sometimes — to work on screen.”

Meanwhile, Jolie has hinted that she plans to cut back on acting within the next few years (as she approaches 40–which, in Hollywood, makes an actress (but not an actor) over-the-hill). But producers say there’s no other female who can step in and play the action roles that Angelina now embodies.

“I don’t see anybody right now,” di Bonaventura says. “Will there be more female action heroes? There will be another one, yeah, I believe that. You look at these things as a progression.”

He adds:” With Angie, you’re just letting her be what she is. We’ve gotten away from that male classification of what is an ‘action star.’ And that means that will open possibilities for somebody else. You just needed somebody to break the ground.”