Los Angeles: Oscar-nominated Hollywood top actress Maggie Gyllenhaal on Thursday said in an interview that she was too angry to hear that she was ‘Too Old’ as the age of 37 to play the lover of a 55-year-old man, thesenlive reported.

In an interview with TheWrap Magazine, that went viral online, the 37-year old Maggie Gyllenhaal said, “There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time,”

“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 feel angry, and then it made me laugh.” The Oscar-nominated actress kept on saying.

The interview went viral on social media websites with salon.com commenting that the incident “lays bare just how delusional and hilariously sexist Hollywood truly is.”

Gyllenhaal, the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal who won an Oscar award for his flick “Brokeback Mountain.”, was also nominated for an Academy Award for her “Crazy Heart” in 2009.