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Joely Richardson, 59, discusses lack of acting roles for middle-aged women as she's forced to 'work hard for her career'


Ahead of her latest role as Lady Sabrina in The Gentlemen, a spin-off of Guy Ritchie's 2019 film, she explained how the part came her way.

In The Gentlemen, Theo James portrays lead character Eddie, who inherits 'his father's sizeable estate only to discover' its a 'weed empire owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. The 2019 movie starred Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Strong, Henry Golding, and Hugh Grant among many others. In the film version, Mickey Pearson (played by Matthew) was a drug lord that tried to sell off his profitable marijuana business to a dynasty of billionaires.

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