This is not a new trend though. In Lawrence Oliviers Hamlet from 1948, Hamlets mother is played by an actress which is 10 years younger than Olivier. The artic

This is not a new trend though. In Lawrence Oliviers Hamlet from 1948, Hamlets mother is played by an actress which is 10 years younger than Olivier. The article shows a graph of the age gap between leads, and it shows it slightly narrowing, while both men an women stars are getting older on average.