Hollywood icon Joan Collins is a world-renowned actress who burst into the spotlight during the 1950s after getting her big break in I Believe in You. Due to her success in the role, the press at the time labelled her ‘Britain’s Bad Girl’ as she propelled into stardom.
Now at 91, Joan’s career has seen her receive several accolades, including Golden Globe Awards, People’s Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 1983, the actress was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Reflecting on her career in film and television, Joan compared the shift in subject matter to modern movies, while revealing her favourite movie is a 1988 classic.
In a 2023 column, Joan criticised many of Hollywood’s recent offerings, branding them “too long, too boring, too bleak.” Speaking on Cate Blanchett’s Oscar-nominated performance in Tar, she stated that the Australian actress “gives a tour de force in Tar as a composer, yet it was in a film that, frankly, had me nodding off halfway through”.
She added: “Ana de Armas surely deserved her nomination for Best Actress for playing Marilyn Monroe in the film Blonde, but I couldn’t cope with the bizarre talking foetus.
“Here are some of the entertaining and brilliant films that were nominated: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, A Fish Called Wanda, Working Girl and, one of mine and my husband’s shared favourites, Midnight Run.”
The 1988 comedy classic, Midnight Run, stars Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter who catches a bail jumper, Jonathan (played by Charles Grodin), much to the FBI’s embarrassment.
Praising the films, Joan added: “The subject matters were lofty, educational and difficult, yet the stories with a message were simple, the film-making, editing and dialogue clear.”
In her MailOnline column, the actress shared some of her biggest issues with many Hollywood films being released today. She explained: “Films today seem to cater either to a small group of like-minded individuals who respond to the egalitarian ‘woke-ism’ so prevalent among today’s so-called intelligentsia or, at the other end of the spectrum, to the very young, with superhero franchises, man-eating zombies, infantile and scatological humour or blood-spattering horror.”