78-year-old actress Joanna Lumley is one of the UK’s most-loved actresses and she’s recently admitted she is aware of her own mortality after losing a number of friend
Joanna Lumley has discussed her own mortality.
The actress recently spoke about how the ticking clock gives her a boost of energy at 78.
She explained: “As you near the top of the hill you suddenly think: ‘Gosh, there’s not all that amount of time left. All kinds of my beloved friends are beginning to leave.”
“My time must be coming quite soon and I don’t want to have wasted a minute of being on this beautiful planet.”
Her comments come after she recently starred in BBC’s Amandaland and in the Netflix project Fool Me Once last year. Not one to sit still, Joanna’s latest ITV adventure sees her trotting along the whopping 1,770-mile stretch of the River Danube, reports the Mirror.
The Absolutely Fabulous star also offered some advice about embracing your twilight years and told My Weekly: “I used to panic when I was young, but as I’ve got older I’ve started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.”
“I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. When I was 18, I longed to be 30. When I was 30, longed to be 50. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.”
Joanna also addressed the impact of social media and urged the younger generation to spend time “in their own heads” without the distraction of the internet and smart devices.
She said: “My big message to the young that you need time in your head. I’m so afraid we’re going to breed a generation who don’t know the world and don’t know how to talk.”
Joanna is best known for her acting gigs from The New Avengers and Sapphire and Steel to Absolutely Fabulous, Finding Alice and Motherland.
Back in the 60s she famously played one of Ken Barlow’s early flames in Coronation Street and on the silver screen, she has shared the limelight with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Joanna is married Stephen Barlow, 70, has a son, Jamie, 57, and is a grandmother to two granddaughters, Alice, 22, and Emily, 21.
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