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Academy Award-nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal may be one of the best and most respected actors of her generation, but not even that could save her from the cold, hard fact that she’s a woman in Hollywood.

Case-in-point, during a recent audition the 37-year-old was told she was ‘too old’ to play the lover of a man nearly twenty years her senior.

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“There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time,”Gyllenhaal told TheWrap Magazine. “I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”

Because, really, what else could she do?

According to a report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television, Film & New Media at San Diego State University, female actors took only 12% of leading roles in the top 100 domestic-grossing films of 2014.

In fact, ageism and sexism is so rampant in Hollywood that earlier this month the American Civil Liberties Union announced it would demand state and federal agencies investigate why major studio regularly fail to hire aspiring and seasoned female directors for movies.

Perhaps the situation is best summed up via a recent NSFW sketch from the Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer which is guaranteed to make you feel bad, and then angry, and then it will make you laugh: