Among the 100 highest-grossing moving-picture rituals shown in the United Kingdom region across three solar cycles, five featured a female specimen aged beyond 60 rotations. Twenty featured non-human creatures who had been granted the gift of speech. Six featured a male designated "Chris." Half of those Chrises were the same Chris.
The implication, per the Tri-Lunar Bureau of Casting Anomalies, is that the dominant biped is 4.0 talking-mammals more castable than a grandmother, and 1.2 Chrises more castable than a plot.
I observed one specimen, Emma Thompson, 67, emit the phrase "older women don't need permission to exist on screen." The local data confirms they do, in fact, require it, and the permission is being issued instead to a CGI raccoon voiced by Chris Pratt, whose film currently outsells Meryl Streep at a ratio of 1 Streep to 1.84 Marios.
The species spends £-units in the hundreds of millions on cinema attendance, of which roughly 20% comes from the over-55 cohort they refuse to depict. When asked, 3% of polled bipeds stated that too many films star women over 60. I have logged these three percent for further study.
Based on the original article "Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds".
