There is also a visual shift occurring. The "Instagram face" aesthetic—smooth, poreless, frozen in time—has begun to eat itself. Audiences are developing a fatigue with the artificial.
To understand the weight of the current renaissance, we have to acknowledge the vacuum that preceded it. Hollywood has long been guilty of what I call "The Disappearing Act." While male stars like George Clooney or Robert De Niro were allowed to age into their "silver fox" era—gaining gravitas, wrinkles, and love interests half their age—women were simply written off the map.