Joan Collins says parties in Hollywood have become boring amid today’s cancellation culture.
“The parties I go to now are a bit…boring,” the 90-year-old Hollywood legend told Best magazine. “It’s things on the red carpet that everyone behaves in. If you don’t behave now, you’ll be kicked out.’
The Londoner, who moved to the US at the age of 20, said she sees four stars remaining in show business: Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves.
“I think Nicole Kidman is fantastic and Margot Robbie is one of the great beauties,” Collins, who played Alexis Carrington Colby in the 1980s hit Dynasty. “Especially Brad, he’s like one of the Golden Age movie stars.”
Collins has been vocal about the shift in Tinseltown’s culture in the six years since the #MeToo movement.
The latest: Joan Collins, 90, says partying in Hollywood has become boring amid today’s cancellation culture. Pictured in Kidlington, Oxfordshire in June 2023
Speak against The New York Times in March 2022, Collins said she felt there had been an unfair response to men during the movement against sexual misconduct and abuse.
“Unfortunately, I think young men are now suffering from being labeled as toxicly masculine because of this rise of anti-masculinity,” Collins told the newspaper, adding that she considers herself a feminist.
“I believe women are equal to men in every way,” Collins said. “Except physical strength. People say you didn’t burn your bra, you wear lipstick. So? I am very proud to be a woman.’
In the exchange, Collins also expressed her views on using gender-neutral terms.
She said, ‘What’s the matter with mother? What’s wrong with woman? Girl? I don’t like that word being taken away.’
The #MeToo movement started in the fall of 2022 amid a pair of explosive stories directed at Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein of the New Yorker And The New York Timesin which he was accused of sexual misconduct.
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York in 2020 in connection with convictions for third-degree rape in 2013 and forcible oral sex in 2006.
Amid a deluge of allegations against Weinstein, allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against dozens of other powerful figures in the entertainment industry — a group that included actor Kevin Spacey, producer Russell Simmons, director Brett Ratner, comedian Louis CK, and broadcasters Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose.
The Hollywood legend told Best magazine, “The parties I go to now are a bit… boring”
The Dynasty alum said parties are now “things on the red carpet that everyone behaves in,” and “if you don’t behave now, you’ll get canceled.”
Collins and her husband Percy Gibson, 58, were pictured in London last week
Collins played the role of Alexis Carrington Colby in the 1980s hit Dynasty
Collins has been candid about her own past experiences with sexual assault in the past.
She expressed her views on the #MeToo movement in December 2018 The observersaid she had a combative response when faced with sexual harassment and misconduct.
“It seems to me that actresses say, you know, ‘I went to this producer and he took his dick out and I froze,” Collins said. “I mean, I’m sorry, you don’t freeze, you say, ‘Stop that, I’m leaving.’
“I just kneed them in the groin. It’s hardly suffering. You just couldn’t bear it.’
Collins has been married five times and is mother to children Tara Newley, 59, and Alexander Newley, 57, with late ex-husband Anthony Newley, and daughter Katy Kass, 51, with late ex-husband Ron Kass.
She married husband Percy Gibson, 58, in February 2002 at luxury London hotel Claridge’s, and had a bash at the same venue last year for their 20th wedding anniversary.