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    Carrie-Anne Moss Got Real About Ageism And Being Offered A "Grandmother" Role When She Turned 40

    "It's not easy being in this business."

    Carrie-Anne Moss has starred in many films and TV shows throughout her career, and you definitely know her from The Matrix trilogy.

    Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix Reloaded

    During a conversation with actor and author Justine Bateman in support of Bateman's new book Face: One Square Foot of Skin, Moss talked about how she's experienced ageism in Hollywood during her acting career.

    Carrie-Anne Moss at a screening of season three of Jessica Jones

    After saying that she initially didn't believe that "at 40 everything changed" in Hollywood, Moss' mind was changed when she turned the age herself.

    Moss in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

    "Literally the day after my 40th birthday, I was reading a script that had come to me," Moss remembered, "and I was talking to my manager about it. She was like, 'Oh, no, no, no, it's not that role [you're reading for], it's the grandmother.'"

    Moss sits by a tree in the film Normal

    "I may be exaggerating a bit, but it happened overnight. I went from being a girl to the mother to beyond the mother."

    Moss in the film Snow Cake

    Moss also opened up about the unrealistic standards that female-identifying actors face when it comes to changing their looks: "I would look at these French and European actresses and they just had something about them that felt so confident in their own skin."

    Carrie-Anne Moss in Fido

    "I couldn't wait to be that. I strive for that. It's not easy being in this business. There's a lot of external pressure."

    Moss in Mini's First Time

    But Moss is still going strong in the biz anyway — and she's set to appear in the fourth Matrix movie, which should be seeing release later this year. Exciting stuff!

    Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix