I'm with J Smith-Cameron

... aging women in film and television are all of us

She’s got the Roman Roy d*ck pics to prove it: J Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman on Succession/Image courtesy HBO

“I think I thought that people in their 60s were all washed up when I was younger. When I turned 40 I was worried about that, and I got some great parts then. And the same when I turned 50 and when I turned 60. I think I would be delighted by all of that.”

- J Smith-Cameron, the actress who does such a delicious job of playing legal counsel on HBO’s Succession, to Bustle

In the early-to-mid 2000s, I had a sweet gig filling in for my newspaper chain’s film writer. He would take weekends off whenever the press trips were for substandard films, or it was Canadian Thanksgiving, and I would be flown into Los Angeles and the lap of luxury.

That’s how I got to interview the cast, directors and writers of such diverse offerings as Soul Plane (Snoop Dogg!), Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood!), Talledega Nights (Will Farrell!) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (angel-baby Linda Cardellini!). I adored these trips. The anecdotes from this period are too many to mention. Running on a treadmill at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, trying to pretend I wasn’t aware Matthew McConaughey was working out shirtless beside me, for example. Hearing Enrique Iglesius yell excitedly into his mobile “are we going to make a hit record?” as he paced poolside, his girlfriend Anna Kournikova flipping through a magazine on a lounger behind him.