Sex Scenes Didn’t Kill Meg Ryan’s Career. Being a Woman in Hollywood Did.

In a new interview with the New York Times Magazine, Meg Ryan says her career in front of the camera tapered off in the early 2000s because she was cut out for neither acting nor fame. The former left her feeling like she was “burning through life experiences” in the roles she played without having any of her own. The latter placed a barrier—“so much metal,” like the impermeable shell of a fancy car, she says—between her and the rest of the world.

from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2DDRtMU