Robin Wright’s new miniseries, The Girlfriend, is now airing on Amazon Prime. The full series, which also stars Olivia Cooke and Laurie Davidson, dropped on September 10. Robin has been making the rounds to promote it, which included sitting down for a profile with AARP The Magazine. They talked about her turning 60 next year, what she’s looking for in a relationship (she’s currently dating British architect Henry Smith), her favorite movie genre, and one of my personal favorite movies, The Princess Bride.

The Princess Bride was a blast to make: We laughed so hard making that movie, we’d have to cut camera and start over again because it was such a giggle-fest. Normally, you go to a set, you act, you wrap, and you go back to your hotel room alone. But we took over the hotel, and Cary [Elwes] and I and Rob Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest would all have a potluck dinner in the big kitchen. It was going home with people you had fun with to play music, eat good food and commune.

There’s no chance of a sequel: Sometime after we hit the 30-year mark, the cast did a Zoom call, and a couple of actors were like, “We’ve been asked if we’ll do a sequel,” and I was like, “Well, a lot of us are going to be in a wheelchair.” So no, no, that will never happen.

She loves scary movies: I loved Fatal Attraction [1987], and The Strangers [2008] with Liv Tyler—that’s one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. I gravitate toward anything that’s on the edge, demented or sociopathic.

She still believes in love: I’m such a romantic. You can go through tumultuous, distressing relationships, but we rebound, don’t we? Our hearts rebound with a belief that it’s still there and it can be achieved and how wonderful when it comes again.

On what she doesn’t want in a man: I don’t want to worry anymore. I don’t want to doubt, I don’t want to suspect. I don’t want all those things that we did in our 20s. I can’t imagine feeling again what I felt then, which was jealous, suspicious. You grow out of it like you grow out of a pair of pants.

On turning 60 next year: I don’t see it as the end of an era. It’s just another number that’s a little bit bigger. It hasn’t shifted me in any way because I feel like I did that shift when I was 50, where I said, “I’m going to do it my way.”

Failure is okay: I’d say that no matter the age, it’s OK to fail, it’s not shameful. Human error and mistakes happen all the time. You have a chance to go again.

[From AARP]

I tdid not peg Robin as a fan of psychological thrillers! I liked those types of movies during a different era, but now I find the increasing need to watch movies that provide escapism. (I still enjoy intense television series, though; I think it’s the format.) I really appreciate Robin’s perspective on turning 60. It sounds like she processed her feelings about aging when she turned 50. I turned 40 last year and expected to have this big mental shift, but in the end, the only shift I experienced was on the physical end. I also agree with her thoughts on failure. I’m trying to teach my kids that failure is a part of how we learn, that we all do it, and that it’s not indicative of who they are as people, but rather it’s how they react to failure that defines them.

Oh, and I am so relieved to hear Robin reiterate that there will never be a Princess Bride sequel. She and her castmates have been vocal in the past about how they found it “inconceivable” to even attempt to do a sequel or reboot. They came together for that WisDems fundraiser in September 2020, where most of the original cast participated in a live reading of the script. That was so good and truly enough for me. I’m 100% okay with Hollywood not touching The Princess Bride. It’s perfect the way it is.

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