What is the nuance of this?

I read this article about actor Kathy Bates on the Guardian. I am not sure of the nuance of these two paragraphs.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/17/kathy-bates-richard-jewell-i-told-clint-after-50-years-i-feel-like-ive-hit-the-big-time?CMP=aff_1432&utm_content=The+Independent&awc=5795_1579285198_2b35d9f7cb7120844d185edd32f4832c

[“About people like Weinstein and the casting couch and all of that,” she says, “I have a confession. In my day, if you went up to a guy’s hotel room, you knew exactly why you were going and in those days it was consensual. Times were different, but I really support the women who are coming forward now and I’m not happy about the men who are being accused falsely – but the ones who deserve all they’re getting, my feeling is hey, go for it.”

That she wasn’t a classic starlet didn’t insulate her from misogyny’s pigeonholing – right? “I hate to complain about it, but never being considered the romantic lead – which is fine, I’m over that, been there, done that – means they look at me in a different way. But then I look at my friends who are beautiful girls but not working after 40 – very few of them. Well, Nicole Kidman is …]

Especially this part from the journalist. 'That she wasn’t a classic starlet didn’t insulate her from misogyny’s pigeonholing – right?' => I think Kathy's comment Weinstein in the previous paragraph can be interpreted as one that can be remarked as a woman who had received (unfair) criticism regarding her appearance as much as her comment sounds inappropriate. Is this sarcasm? Also what does Kathy mean by saying "But then I look at my friends who are beautiful girls but not working after 40 – very few of them. Well, Nicole Kidman is …"? Oh.. the first sentence of the second paragraph may relate to the beautiful actors who are no longer working in their 40s but I don't know how the sentence and Kathy's comment are related. Thank you in advance.