Joan Collins Refuses to Be Outlined by Age

I really like writing, I really like appearing, going onstage and doing my little one-woman present, and I refuse to be outlined by a quantity, by an age. I believe that’s terribly old style and never related in right now’s world.
However it’s important to be resilient on this enterprise. Rejection is part of it. I look with dismay at so lots of my fellow actors, fallen by the way in which due to drink and medicines. My father — he was a theatrical agent — instilled in me that I ought to develop pores and skin like a rhinoceros, and be like a marshmallow on the within.
You additionally want endurance. This enterprise is a ready recreation. For instance, a script was written for me in regards to the Duchess of Windsor [Wallis Simpson]. I’ve been eager to do it because the Nineteen Eighties. We obtained a inexperienced mild solely a month in the past. Years in the past I believed it might be great to do an image about rising up with my sister, Jackie. It simply hasn’t come off.
It might be set after we have been youngsters, through the Blitz. On the time I didn’t really feel worry. I didn’t know in regards to the bombings. We might decide up shrapnel within the streets, and within the night I’d put it in my cigar field. We might draw foolish photos of Hitler. We have been evacuated 10 or 12 instances. We might be within the tube stations, and other people could be taking part in their harmonicas and singing.
A query I’m usually requested is, “Why are you continue to working?” It’s such a fatuous factor to say. I carry on working as a result of I really like being busy. It’s tiring after I do my one-woman present, going to a brand new resort each night time. Nevertheless it’s rewarding. The viewers is so responsive. That buoys me.
Present and upcoming tasks: “Behind the Shoulder Pads, Tales I Inform My Pals,” a memoir; “Joan Collins Unscripted,” a British theatrical tour.
This interview has been edited and condensed.