The casting director, a 28-year-old in sneakers, doesn’t look up from his iPad. “Celeste, great. Just give us ‘devastated but dignified.’”

Celeste, on set for the first time in years. No trailer with her name on it. No assistant fetching kale juice. She is sitting in a folding chair, holding a paper coffee cup, going over her lines. She looks up at the camera—Zara’s camera, because Zara is the DP now—and smiles.

Between 2010 and 2020, roles for women over 50 in Hollywood dropped by 34%. In the same period, roles for men over 50 increased by 12%. The third act is still being written. End.