Ruth Wilson

‘So many people don’t believe anything – only what makes them money’: Ruth Wilson on being a Hollywood outsider

The Affair star on #MeToo hypocrisy, the violence of cosmetic surgery, and why she steers clear of social media

Saturday May 6 2023, The Guardian

Ruth 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. “Just that would make the world of difference,” she says. She is 41 and “everyone” around her talks about Botox “and what to fill their face with”. This is not in response to any question of mine. This is Ruth Wilson freewheeling on how confusing she finds the notion of “female empowerment” in 2023. “As an actress, everyone does it. Very few resist. I haven’t done anything – yet. 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. “I mean, are they joking? I find it so … ” she emits a plosive exhale of despair. “It’s mad! It’s massive violence.” Why can’t a woman age on screen? Or age, full stop?

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