I find it hard to feel sorry for actresses that have made millions per movie and want to complain. Older actresses can still work, maybe not in the younger roles they've had in the past, but in some capacity. Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and Julia Roberts have managed to.
I notice she didn't turn down the cheese cake role in her 20s that helped lead to the sexualization of women. Many women profit from the power that sexualization gives them, and then complain when it is taken away. I admit that the movie industry has turned such role definition into cement, but that's exactly what the television industry is doing to men.
Men are depicted as stupid, vain and always needing to be rescued by women. Are there exceptions? Sure, but there are exceptions to the female archetypes in movies.
Movie creators feel that their advertisement is aimed at men in their late teens to early 30s because they are the ones bringing girls on dates (and are of an impressionable age). Advertisers in TV think that it is women watching TV and making purchase decisions, again late teens to early 30s. Everyone else is unimportant.
Generally, when a multi-multi-millionaire complains that they should be even richer making even more money, I laugh. I know a lot of men and women in live theater but their roles tend to be far more balanced. They're not making anywhere near as much money but, strangely, they have a lot more credibility.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.