The Sixth Day<\/a><\/i>) and Harrison Ford (Air Force One<\/i>). She also had a hilarious turn as a sexually frustrated woman who finds unexpected ecstasy through her lesbian daughter\u2019s sex toys in Anne Wheeler\u2019s hit comedy Better Than Chocolate<\/i>.<\/p>\nBut you can only play someone else\u2019s wife or mother so many times before you begin to crave bigger roles, so Crewson jumped at the chance to play Jackie York, a sharp-tongued, self-destructive author who has an affair with a man barely half her age, in Wheeler\u2019s newest film, Suddenly Naked<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t often read a lot of comedies with 40-year-old women protagonists,\u201d says Crewson, who is currently in town shooting This Much I Know<\/i> with Leslie Hope, during an interview at the Sutton Place Hotel. \u201cAnd I loved that her behaviour \u2014 and this gets me in a lot of trouble \u2014 was so male. Not all guys live like that, but it\u2019s not generally seen as female behaviour \u2014 the kitchen\u2019s a mess and she eats junk food all the time, and she smokes and drinks too much, and she lives like a cocky 30-year-old guy. And that really appealed to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jackie York is also quite promiscuous \u2014 she secretly sleeps with fans who show up at her door, then rates them in a database \u2014 but even she\u2019s unprepared for the turn her love life takes when she meets the author of a novel that she\u2019s been reading online. It turns out the author, Patrick McKeating (Joe Cobden), is only 20 years old \u2014 but Jackie has been suffering from writer\u2019s block, and there\u2019s something about Patrick\u2019s writing, and his ability to counter her quips, that inspires her, so they embark on an affair. But Jackie is desperate to keep the affair a secret, lest it ruin her public image.<\/p>\n
Crewson, who is 46, can identify with the age gap, sort of \u2014 she\u2019s 18 years younger than her husband, actor Michael Murphy (An Unmarried Woman<\/i>). But she says women like Jackie, who are at the older end of such gaps, still suffer from a social double standard. \u201cDo you think anybody looks twice at Michael and me and thinks, \u2018Oh man, he\u2019s 18 years older than she is?\u2019 Not a blink. It\u2019s completely accepted that a man would have a younger wife, and quite frankly, we don\u2019t often think about the age difference. But you put a woman who\u2019s 18 or 19 years older than a man in this situation, then of course the conversation comes up. Guys have always gotten away with tons more. It\u2019s always more acceptable for the guy to be out doing whatever, having casual sex, sowing his wild oats \u2014 what a guy! And if a girl does it, immediately she\u2019s like some fallen woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crewson says she hopes the arrival of movies like Tadpole<\/i> and Lovely & Amazing<\/i> indicates our society may be more open to relationships where the woman is the older partner. But she cautions against the idea that middle-aged women are on the prowl for younger companions; the reason Jackie and Patrick click so well is that they had a meeting of the minds before they had a meeting of the bodies. \u201cThe popular belief that all older women are cougars that are letching after young men is, I think, complete crap,\u201d she says. \u201cThe truth of the matter is that the young guy would be lucky if it happened at all, and quite frankly, most women I know aren\u2019t really interested in a 20-year-old, because what the hell are you going to say to them? What\u2019s the conversation ever going to be, in terms of a relationship? Who wants to be somebody\u2019s babysitter? You get some guy who doesn\u2019t know how to order a bottle of wine, doesn\u2019t have any money and doesn\u2019t know anything of anything, and it\u2019s supposed to be cute?\u201d<\/p>\n
If Crewson is concerned about the impact this film might have on young men, it may be because the film has been marketed with just such an audience in mind. The script was originally called Show and Tell<\/i>, but the producers \u2014 including Crewson, who took a co-executive producer credit on this film \u2014 agreed the title had to change. \u201cThe props girl came up with \u2018Literary Affairs,\u2019 which I thought was a brilliant title. But \u2018Suddenly Naked\u2019 apparently looked better on a video jacket when 14-to-24-year-olds are looking at it. I don\u2019t know why they\u2019d want to see the movie anyway,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI mean, I made it for 40-year-old women. I didn\u2019t really make it for 14-year-old boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crewson, who won a best-actress Gemini for the CBC TV movie At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story<\/i>, has plenty of other projects in the works. She recently starred in several CTV movies based on Gail Bowen\u2019s Joanne Kilbourn mysteries, and she\u2019ll also return to the big screen this fall in Between Strangers<\/i>, opposite Sophia Loren, and in The Santa Clause 2<\/i>. All of these shows were made in Canada, and the sheer amount of work here prompted Crewson and her family \u2014 she has two children, aged 12 and 9 \u2014 to move to Toronto after living in San Francisco for 10 years. The family made the switch so she could do more work without going on the road. \u201cSo I could actually go home at night and see the kids.\u201d Being a wife and mother on the big screen may get tiring, but Crewson still likes to play the part at home.<\/p>\n
\u2014 A version of this article was first published in <\/i>The Vancouver Courier.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Wendy Crewson may not be a household name, but you\u2019ve probably seen one of her movies. Over the past two decades, the Hamilton-born actress \u2014 who grew up in Winnipeg, Montreal, and points in-between \u2014 has played the supportive wife opposite Sam Neill (Bicentennial Man<\/i>), Judge Reinhold (The Santa Clause<\/i>), Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Sixth Day<\/a><\/i>) and Harrison Ford (Air Force One<\/i>). She also had a hilarious turn as a sexually frustrated woman who finds unexpected ecstasy through her lesbian daughter\u2019s sex toys in Anne Wheeler\u2019s hit comedy Better Than Chocolate<\/i>.<\/p>\n