Consequently, aging was a crisis. While male leads like Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, and Clint Eastwood could age gracefully into grizzled action heroes or dignified patriarchs, their female counterparts—from Bette Davis to Meryl Streep—bemoaned the lack of complex roles after 40. Davis famously said that Hollywood was "a dinosaur industry that has no idea what to do with a woman over 35."