When “Hacks” star Jean Smart accepted her Golden Globe for lead actress in a comedy series on Sunday — her third of four nominations for her role on the HBO Max comedy — she joked from the stage of the Beverly Hilton ballroom “what can I say? I’m a greedy bitch.”

That may be debatable. But it is true that Smart, at age 74, was one of the oldest acting winners of the night. Stellan Skarsgård, who is a slightly older 74, received the male supporting actor in a motion picture Golden Globe for “Sentimental Value.” He acknowledged this when he said in his acceptance speech that “I of course was not prepared for this, because I thought that I was too old.”

Backstage in the press room, Smart had some, well, rather smart words about aging in the industry. 

“Somebody told me, years and years ago when I first got to LA, that there was one role for a woman for every 20 roles per man, which was really depressing,” she said. “They also said that the average age difference between a husband and a wife in the United States is a little hair over two years, and on the screen, it’s 20. So I’m not sure we’ll ever get past that.”

Still, she said, “I think a lot has changed” even though she also said “I hate to think I’m the poster child for older actresses.”

Other Boomer representation at the ceremony included Kathy Bates, who was nominated for female actor in a TV drama series for CBS’ “Matlock,” and composers Alexandre Desplat (“Frankenstein”) and Hans Zimmer (“F1”), who were both nominated for film score.