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Feisty, frail or fiendish: why do film-makers still insist on shoving older characters into stereotypes?

There’s been a dramatic increase in actors of pensionable age playing starring roles in movies – but why are the three Fs the only personalities they get to play?

A decade and a half ago, in 2009, I …