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OPRAH: Next, Dixie Carter reveals how her hot love scenes with a 25 year-old prove that older women are sexier than ever. We'll be right back.
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OPRAH: So, Dixie Carter was nearly written off because of her age, but that didn't stop the 60 year-old actress who's now the star of Family Law on CBS. She plays a sassy lawyer entangled in a love affair with a man half her age. Take a look.
In voiceover; this segment was pre-taped on the set of Family Law.
DIXIE: Designing Women was my first real shock abut age. I saw the Pilot -- and my mother was living then -- and I came back home and said, "I'm gonna have to have a face lift." I said, "Ginna, I'm a good 10 years older than anybody else in this cast, and if this show gets on the air, and I get into a hit show at last, I will DIE if I FINALLY find recognition as "the Old One," cause I believe in plastic surgery. If you need it for your head; if you need it for your business. And, in my case, I believe, I definitely needed if for my business.
If you think you can't get a grip on getting older, don't think you're crazy, 'cause it's TOUGH.
This . . . group of really darling college boys were following me out of the coffee shop, and this one . . . followed me . . . a little way and said something kinda . . . flirty. So I (laughing) turned around to say "Well, thank you so much," and this young man looked at me and said, (with a surprised look and expression) "Oh, I didn't know you were so --" (her expression turns blank, then she half smiles and closes her eyes before continuing). And I knew that (her eyes still closed, nodding her head up and down) the next word out of his mouth was going to be "old."
I don't try to pretend that it doesn't bother me, that it doesn't frighten me, and that it isn't there. I don't try to pretend that I don't LOVE it when Christian [Andreas, FL] comes and looks at me on the set as if he MEANS it. I love that. I don't think that we have to be ANGRY fighters against . . . (smiling) against ageism because anger eats . . . us . . . up. It's life. It's "The Life." We have to get used to it.
OPRAH: So true. So true. Thank you so much, Dixie.
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