how old is too old to start a film career?

i was looking on yahoo and you mentioned something about it and i clicked on the link and it said it wasn’t there anymore.

all my life i’ve wanted to work in film and now i just worry i’m too old. being a woman who is 28, i just feel i have very little chance now. i want to act and i want to do well. i just really have no clue on how to get it all going asap to make up for lost time!

but i want to keep trying. am i really over the hill?

katherine

And yes, it does seem odd that some American celebs seem very uncomfortable talking politics. They should take strength from Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, er… Ben Affleck (?) and, um, Barbara Stres -

Oh well, never mind.

It’s intelligent and interesting and amazing that its core themes are as relevant now as they were when the original came out in 1962. In the question and answer afterwards the filmmakers had difficulties not saying anything relating to specific current events. I find this scary – that American celebrities are scared of standing up for their principles for fear that people will stop buying their records etc. –of course in the context of this website it wouldn’t be appropriate, but when you’ve made an overtly political film that really deals with the current state of affairs….

I’m impressed by how deftly you sidestepped the question of who you might be putting your X against in the forthcoming election.

In case you weren’t aware, this election is being watched very closely througout Europe, and I’m sure you can imagine who the overwhelming majority of us would like to see being sworn in come January…

But anyway, that’s beside the point.

Have you ever been tempted to write a political drama/thriller? It seems a shame that very few truly political thrillers seem to be made nowadays – in Hollywood at least.

cheers,

Peter, Belfast.