"Fuck it, I'm alive and I'm working and I can drink a glass of wine and I can wear makeup and I can listen to music and I can watch a beautiful sunset and I can go to the theater and I can watch a movie and I can binge Netflix and I can live life. It's a beautiful thing."
"But I think it's a bit of a dream and a fantasy [that life extension stuff], because when they think of being 150, they don't think of actually being 150 years old. They're thinking of being 30 for 150 years. And that's just not the way the world or nature works."
Helen Mirren, at 80, celebrates aging and enjoys everyday pleasures such as wine, music, sunsets, theater, film and work. She acknowledges some physical downsides, like thinner hair, and notes the pandemic felt like two lost years amid limited remaining time. She expresses skepticism about extreme longevity and life-extension fantasies, criticizing the idea of remaining 30 for 150 years as contrary to nature. Her beauty approach is minimal: she avoids smoking, uses sunblock on face and body while still sunbathing, and emphasizes living fully rather than obsessing over perpetual youth.
Read at Business Insider
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