Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller latest Hollywood movie banking on sexy middle aged moms romancing younger men

There’s a new age of film, and some of Hollywood’s leading ladies are here for it.

Within the past year, actresses such as Nicole Kidman, Anne Hathaway, Laura Dern and more have enthusiastically taken on roles that have shattered sexual stereotypes and challenged cultural conversations. From Kidman’s “A Family Affair” and “Babygirl” to Hathway’s “The Idea of You” and Dern’s upcoming film, “Lonely Planet,” the plots share a common theme: the exploration of what it’s like to be a middle-aged woman discovering self-identity, all while romancing younger men.

Though it’s a theme that has been around for years (who can forget Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate”?), there’s a notable, and long, overdue shift happening now, says Eric Schiffer, Chief Executive Officer of Reputation Management Consultants.

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“Hollywood’s taping powerful cultural shifts on age and romance, headlining older women as empowered and desirable, kills stereotypes, that message that women fail to be sexually hot as they age,” Schiffer told Fox News Digital. “Women relate to this dopamine hit of eternal youth and a novel message that arrests their imagination, takes on taboos, and causes audiences to buzz and clamor.”
“Big stars like Kidman and Hathaway sign onto these roles because they blow up the normal romantic leads in favor of complex characters that can influence cultural conversations and change how people and society view female age and romance,” he added.
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Robert J. Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, said these films are doing just what is expected of them: “challenging the standard status quo” when it comes to gender roles.