Joan Collins know a thing or two about building one “Dynasty.”
The legendary actress, who is currently 93 and starring in a new film titled “My Duchess,” offers crystal clear advice on aging gracefully.
“I just love life,” the “Dynasty” alum shared The independent during Variety’s Women of Power event. “I wake up every morning and breathe the air, try to get a good night’s sleep, drink lots of water and take care of myself.”
Even Collins needs a confidence boost every now and then. The star has a glamorous remedy: watching “old movies.”
“If you’re very lucky, you can find an old Bette Davis movie every now and then,” Collins told the outlet. “But I love the movies from the ’80s and ’90s, the ones with (Jack) Nicholson and Sarah Jessica Parker.”
The Emmy nominee said this earlier The Telegraph that she still goes to the gym to look and feel her best.
“I train with my trainer a few times a week,” she explains. “Just simple Pilates-type exercises instead of using one of those (reformer) Pilates machines.”
As for getting her steps in, Collins isn’t exactly pounding the pavement.
“I’m bored,” she admitted to the outlet. “I walk around my apartment adjusting the flowers, but that’s about it. That sounds ridiculous, and it will look ridiculous when you see it in print, but it’s true.”
Collins emphasized that she is lucky to have “very good genes.”
“My father lived to be 87, and for someone born in 1903, that’s pretty amazing,” she said. “My mother took incredible care of me and my sister. When we were growing up, she gave us all kinds of supplements even though no one was taking supplements.”
Collins’ secret to staying young at heart may also be closer to home: husband No. 5 Percy Gibson, who is 32 years her junior. Collins married the producer in 2002 and after kissing many frogs, she believes she has finally found her prince.
“First of all, we were great friends before we got married,” the actress explained to Fox News Digital in 2023. “We worked on a play together. We enjoyed each other’s company. We hung out together. We saw each other the next year. We wrote love letters. It was gradual. And we realized that we were mostly on the same page.”
“He is a very kind, friendly and grounded person,” she said. “A lot of the people I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which ones – have been neurotic, somewhat out of balance or caught up in other things.”
For Collins, their age difference is “just a number.” She noted that it is “never too late” to find love at any stage of life.
“That’s how we both feel,” she explained. “And we were friends first, above all else.”
She noted at the time that they shared the same drive, which she said was part of the secret behind their lasting union.
“I was born with a huge enthusiasm for life,” she says. “My mother always said that I never sat still as a child. I did five different things at the same time. I did a crossword puzzle, made a dollhouse, read, painted and tried to become a detective – all at the same time!”
“Life is a gift,” she said. “That’s why they call it the present: it’s a gift. And so many people waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a gift and it doesn’t last long.”
In her memoir “Behind the Shoulder Pads,” Collins wrote that Gibson was not concerned about the age difference because “I have great vitality and enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer.”
“Percy often admits that I can wear him out!” she wrote.
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