Andie MacDowell reflects on the joys of starring in 'The Way Home,' her journey as an actress, overcoming criticism, and embracing aging in Hollywood.
Andie MacDowell doesn't take her hit Hallmark series, ' The Way Home ,' for granted. 'It's nice at my age,' she says with a playful sigh, studying the screen through her glasses. The 66-year-old actress and former model is home in South Carolina for the holidays, having wrapped season 3 of the drama. 'I get so excited when I'm walking onto set,' she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. 'It's nice at my age and after all this time to have that feeling of joy.
I'm very conscious of it, so I try to share it and tell everybody how lucky we are.' Despite four decades as an actress, MacDowell is the first to insist she got lucky. 'It's a miracle I made it,' she says. 'I'm not going to take anything from me, but I had to overcome some really huge hurdles.' Raised in South Carolina, MacDowell was already a successful model (she's L’Oréal’s longest-reigning spokesperson) when she won a breakthrough role as Jane in 1984's 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.' But the critics were harsh. 'I could have easily given up,' she says. 'This business is really cruel. The things that they wrote about me were just terrible.' Yet, the naysayers only bolstered MacDowell’s determination to 'prove to the casting directors that I was not trash, that I was valuable,' she says. Her career trajectory changed when she won the role of a sexually passive housewife in 1989’s 'Short Cuts.'On her own, MacDowell has become an advocate for aging in Hollywood by leaning into her years of wisdom and embracing her silver hair, which she stopped coloring during COVID. Still, she has moments of doubt when she thinks of her chosen career path. 'I still struggle,' she explains. 'Sometimes I’m really hard on myself. I’m my absolute worst critic. But sometimes it feels like I’m flying.' MacDowell's journey, filled with both triumphs and challenges, serves as an inspiration to aspiring actors and a testament to her resilience and enduring passion for her craft
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