"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play"
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The subtext is sharper than nostalgia. She’s talking about gender, aging, and the narrowing of desire. In a teen-oriented ecosystem, women are often slotted into archetypes: the mother, the villain, the glamorous accessory, the “strong female character” whose strength is mostly branding. An actress who built her screen persona on adult eroticism and moral complexity is essentially saying: the kinds of stories that let women be contradictory - tender and ruthless, funny and ashamed, powerful and wrong - are being squeezed out by content designed to be instantly shareable and globally legible.
The phrasing matters. “Very difficult” isn’t moral panic; it’s labor talk. She’s describing the practical scarcity of roles that feel like literature rather than product. Coming from Bellucci, whose career spans European auteur cinema and mainstream spectacle, the line also reads as insider reportage: she’s seen the menu shrink. It’s less “kids these days” than an indictment of an industry that mistakes youth for universality and treats depth as a niche feature.
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Bellucci, Monica. (2026, January 18). Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-all-the-movies-are-for-teenagers-its-very-23909/
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"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-all-the-movies-are-for-teenagers-its-very-23909/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.


