5/22/2023 0 Comments The Door Before by N.D. Wilson![]() ![]() ![]() “Like, humpf.” Or Elizabethans painting their faces with lead-based ceruse that ate their skin and made their hair fall out. She plucks examples – Tudor fashion, she says, pretending to cinch her waist with a corset. She sits back against the banquette of the cafe in the photographic studio where we’ve met. “It’s mad! It’s massive violence.” Why can’t a woman age on screen? Or age, full stop?īut this is nothing new, she says. “I mean, are they joking? I find it so … ” she emits a plosive exhale of despair. But it’s in my head as like, ‘Well, do you decide not to and therefore potentially look older than your peers? Or do you just give in?’” Yesterday she read in the New York Times that people should get Botox in their 20s to stop wrinkles forming. ![]() This is Ruth Wilson freewheeling on how confusing she finds the notion of “female empowerment” in 2023. ![]() This is not in response to any question of mine. She is 41 and “everyone” around her talks about Botox “and what to fill their face with”. “Just that would make the world of difference,” she says. R uth Wilson hitches the skin by her ears to demonstrate how she’d look if she had “those little wires” sewn into her face, by which she means a thread lift. ![]()
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