Moss said that was a tough transition to process in part because male actors avoid the same trajectory. Moss said she never wanted to stay in the business if she felt like she’d have to change everything about herself in order to stay in it. “You don’t feel like you’ve aged much and suddenly you’re seeing yourself onscreen,” she said, adding that it’s “kind of brutal” witnessing the process. “I would look at these French and European actresses and they just had something about them that felt so confident in their own skin. I couldn’t wait to be that. I strive for that. It’s not easy being in this business. There’s a lot of external pressure.”
Moss praised Bateman for writing Face, which serves as a follow-up to her 2018 book that examines Hollywood, Fame: The Hijacking of Reality.
For Face, Bateman, 55, was compelled to take a deeper look at the unfair expectations placed on women, particularly women in the public eye like her, as they grow older. “I find it psychotic that we have leapfrogged any conversations that we should be cutting up our faces,” she said. “It’s become normalized. Time out, time out! This is not a fact. This is an idea that we can either pull in and make a belief or not. I’m like, fuck that.”
As she has resisted the commonly accepted practice, critics from all corners have taken to message boards to lambaste her looks. But it still won’t make her choose surgery, she said.
Instead, she looked inward to fix the triggers and heal all the insecurities that caused her to respond to such vitriol. “It does nothing to make me happier or free. It does everything to tamp all that down. It does everything to mute my life. I’m going to do the opposite, then I’ll have the opposite result.”
