Mature women are no longer required to be "likable" or maternal. in The Wife (70) played a literary genius who sacrificed her own career for her mediocre husband’s, culminating in a cold, devastating revenge. Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter (47) played a professor who abandons her young children for an affair, never fully apologizing. Robin Wright in The Land of Women showcases messy, selfish, ambitious women navigating the second half of life. These roles are flourishing because audiences trust mature actresses to hold moral complexity.