Career management for anyone in Hollywood is a tough game, a slippery slope, the most inexact science, really. If
success comes a calling, choosiness must then be balanced with concerns
for not only a modicum of financial security, but also some loose sense
of supervision of profile. After all, familiarity generally breeds
success, and if too many risky indies all crap out, actors can find
themselves on the outside staring in, trying to get meetings with
up-and-coming directors, and phones calls returned from studio execs
who just a few short years ago were hounding them for a lunch
date. For women, the game can be even tougher, with less starring
vehicles and thus less statistical opportunity. Sigourney Weaver,
though, has had an amazingly diverse and successful career, numbering
more than 40 films. How does she do it — what’s her battle plan? Acting her age, as remarkably simple as that sounds. For the full feature piece, from FilmStew, click here.

Meanwhile, for more with Weaver, including her work on Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set, click here; for some of her thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar, click here.