James Spader is a perfect example of why male actors do well in the business,
not matter how ugly or out of shape they get. If they have the talent, they'll still get business.
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Seriously, though. I dropped into the show some time after it began and he was portly looking in the episode. In the google photos he looks slimmed down.
I mean I can name a quite a few female actresses who seem to have no issue getting work no matter how old, unattractive or out-of-shape they get. The reality if that once you get past the glitz and glam of film, the entire industry runs all-around on looks and sexism unless you're talented enough that they don't matter.
There is truth to the canard that it's hard to get acting jobs after 40 if you're a woman...but it's a flip-side to a reality that it's a lot easier to break into the industry if you're young, pretty and female no matter how talentless you are. (I don't know if people notice, but a vast-majority of the cute, young ingenues with sex-appeal can't act their way out of a paper bag...I can name fewer truly-talented under-30 starlets than over-60 actresses with strong careers. For every Carey Mulligan there are 50 Megan Fox, 50 Kristen Stewart and 3 Diane Keaton. 99% of Mulligan's peers won't be working once their looks fade, they have nothing else to offer; Keaton will be acting until she decides she no longer wants to.) The is a corollary casting of young males hired as eye candy into supporting roles...they also have no careers once their looks fade unless they learn to act or degrade themselves to SyFy movies. (See: Antonio Sabato Jr. and Robert Pattinson)
Male leads, fairly or unfairly, are still expected to carry a film and be the box office draw. Very few of the truly major ground-breaking roles for males go to newcomers to the craft. Unless you're Nic Cage (your uncle is Francis Ford Coppola and you clearly have some sort of blackmail evidence against every casting director in Hollywood), the bar is set a lot higher for male actors looking to break in. I can tell you of three dozen major female roles that were cast when someone saw a pretty face on a street, I've never heard of a leading role for males that was cast in this way.
The bigger problem is that a lot of female roles are written for younger women and the driver of the creation of a majority of these roles for young pretty eye-candy is the inability of Hollywood to make films where men are romantically-involved with appropriately-aged women. I have three dreams as an occasional screenwriter and writer of media criticism:
1.) I want to write a scene that passes the Bechdel test by having two named female characters have a plot-forwarding conversation...about the Bechdel test. (Meta-humor makes me 
...so shoot me.)
2.) I want to write a scene in which a Clooneyesque older man tries to pick up a much younger woman and is rebuffed as too old.
2a.) He should perhaps then move on to trying to pick up a woman his own age. (Unsuccessfully or otherwise.)
3.) I want directors and producers to stop changing age-appropriate romantic leads into creepily age-inappropriate ones.
he was a damn fine looking young man.
Pretty in Pink - bad-boy yum:
Stargate - definitely cute:
And the character he played in Boston Legal - Alan Shore - was, while a tad bit portly and buttoned-up, so damn smart and charismatic and liberal he was super attractive.
And he's 53, not 63. He not ugly, my friend. Older, perhaps. Younger than my husband, who's 15 years older than I am.
He's a good actor, too. He excels at playing borderline characters.
Just saw yesterday he's in a new TV crime series called "The Blacklist"
So yes, his acting ability is what keeps him working even though he's no longer the pretty blond-haired boy he once was.
My husband and I kept asking each other "who is that?" Totally mystified and couldn't place him even as his performance was incredible.
Our jaws about dropped when we discovered it was James Spader.
Such a chameleon. THAT'S why he keeps working. He's a fine actor and honestly, I think he's aged wonderfully.
I forgot about that one! Good movie! 
