Once an actress is past the age of, oh, 23, it seems like there are only two roles left for her in Hollywood: mother or the old woman. I haven’t seen Julia Stiles in anything since the Bourne movies—which is a complete waste, considering how great she is!—and now she’s suddenly Jennifer Lawrence’s mother?
That would have made her 11 when Jennifer was born.
OK, I think Stiles took a few years off to attend Columbia college—which makes sense, since she seems wicked smart and does lots of Shakespeare on screen and elsewhere; I am happy for her—and she did some television, including the hit show Dexter and a few other roles, but that doesn’t mean that when she gets back to filmmaking, she has to play the mom to the leading lady of the day.
