In a tight-fitting Escada cocktail dress and a pair of stiletto mules, 43-year-old Andie MacDowell was every inch the glamorous Hollywood star as she attended the premiere of her new movie Crush on Tuesday.
Don’t mention what great shape she’s in for her age, however, as the topic is one the Four Weddings And A Funeral actress has long tired of. “I’m so sick of discussing what it’s like to be over 40,” she says in this month’s issue of American magazine More.
That doesn’t prevent her from commenting on what for her are its benefits, however. “It’s a sexy age. I find there’s something very attractive about little lines around the eyes,” she says.
Age certainly features large in her latest film, a romantic British comedy in which she plays an American headmistress in a village school who falls for a former student half her age. In real life, however, the age-gap romance holds little appeal for the actress who last November married Rhett Hartzog, a childhood friend from South Carolina whom she hadn’t seen for 19 years. “I certainly wouldn’t want to go out with someone 20 years younger than me, for insecurity reasons and moral reasons and whatever. But it was a great role to play.”
And Andie’s over-40 status didn’t prevent the actress baring all for the first time in Crush’s steamy love scenes. “I just feel I’m sexier now than I was in my 30s,”she says. “I even look hotter.”
While the charming Southerner admits her enviable figure is hard won, she claims keeping in shape is an indulgence rather than a chore. “You know, I have three kids and a career. Working out is one of the enjoyable things I do for myself.”
Crush opens in the UK on June 7 and in the US on April 12.
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