Hollywood Shuffle inspired her, during their spotlight discussion for the Urbanworld Film Festival last month. As a first-time feature filmmaker, the playwright/TV writer, with credits ranging from the plays SEED and Casket Sharp to the TV shows Empire and The Get Down, admitted that she’s embarking on the previously unthinkable: “I’m creating a film career in my 40s,” she told Townsend.Reinvention, pivoting, whatever term one uses, is very real for so many women in their 40s.
And that’s precisely what makes The Forty-Year-Old Version (streaming now on Netflix) produced by friend Lena Waithe with Blank serving as writer, director and star, essential viewing.
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