Sideways star Virginia Madsen has spent the past few years talking about how rewarding it is to get decent roles as an actress over 40. In 2006:
When it comes to aging, Virginia Madsen doesn’t intend to put up a fight. She’s embracing it. “Beauty has to come from within,” she says, “You can be in the greatest gene pool in the world and still mess up if you don’t live right.”
The 44 year-old actress has been “in the business” for more than 20 years and after a slew of, um, bimbo parts in the 80s and 90s, admittedly only really began coming into her own with her Oscar-nominated role of Maya, the dumped-trophy-wife-turned-waitress in 2004’s smash hit Sideways.
“The roles a woman can play in her forties are so much more interesting, so much richer and so much more real. The roles for women in their twenties are flat by comparison. That’s when you’re really a woman, when you’re 40.”
As “really a woman” in her twenties, I’ll have to take her word on that. But it sounded like she was going to be one of the few who embraced aging gracefully.
Oscar nominee VIRGINIA MADSEN is defying the aging process thanks to the latest development in Botox.
The 46-year-old Sideways star has become the new face of BotoxCosmetic - a prescription-only treatment.
In a new beach commercial, which features the actress’ son Jack, Madsen says, “Freedom of expression is what I’m all about… That’s why I asked my doctor about BotoxCosmetic - express yourself.”
Good luck expressing yourself when your facial muscles are shot up full of poison.
Yeah, she’s gonna be free from expression, alright. *eye roll*
It would be nice to see more actresses “of a certain age” actually ageing gracefully. That Botox’d look is hideous as it is. While I understand the pressure to look young and fake in Hollywood, real actresses… you know, the ones that can actually act, still get jobs without injecting themselves with this crap.
I miss you, Jessica Tandy.
Still a devastating beauty and just because she’s p*imping the product doesn’t mean she’s using it.
I always thought VM was one of the better looking more natural women in Hollywood and she wasnt afraid of telling regular hollywood elites to F Off.
I was surprised when I saw this commercial on TV as well. I always liked her looks too, she didn’t look like all the other ’80s starlets. I hope that she doesn’t ruin it.
So where do you draw the line? She never said she wouldn’t do something like that, just that it was nice to be the age she is getting the work she is. So is getting a facial okay or is that cheating? I don’t see where she is being especially hypocritical here. I think she is a beautiful woman. To me, what is ugly is fake, fake boobies, fake faces, fake people. But this is one of those areas where it’s hard to draw the line between making yourself look and feel better and faking it.
I work in Los Angeles and you wouldn’t believe how early the agents are telling models to start botoxing. Even girls in their 20s are being told to Botox their foreheads — being told they should have absolutely no lines on their foreheads at all, ever, under any circumstances!
It was in the news last week that some possible adverse effects on the brain from botox treatments are being detected. I think that someone would have to die before people stop turning their faces into cement with botox. Even then, probably not.
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of Hollywood, there is a secret scroll of rules that all celebs are forced to memorize. It includes: “Thou shalt swear off the evils of Botox and plastic surgery in interviews. Thou shalt further swear that thine unnaturally youthful face is the result of good luck and genetics. Unless thine publicist has decided to pitch you as an everyday person, in which case you will admit to using several products and/or procedures to keep your youthful countenance. In any case, you will make a heap of money and will not care what the public thinks of you.”