TV-MA | TV Series, 5 episodes, 1h 1m | Thriller, Drama | June 16, 2022
There are dead-zones of un-hire-ability that actors need to navigate in order to extend a career that’s inherently, constantly in jeopardy of drying up and blowing away. For example, a particularly difficult age is 28: too old to be the teen heartthrob, but too young to be the young dad.
Old age of course is the mother of all dead-zones for actors of both genders, albeit much worse for women. Hollywood is ageist only if it can’t figure out a way to make money off aging actors, and so former leading men have to figure out how to re-package themselves. Liam Neeson did it by becoming an aging action star in “Taken;” Tommy Lee Jones did the same as U.S. Marshall Sam Gerard in “The Fugitive.”…