Joan Collins criticizes ‘Barbie,’ says Warren Beatty talked her into abortion
what she really thinks about Hollywood, sexism, Ozempic and everything in between.“Hollywood has changed a lot because it’s been taken over mostly by corporations, and corporations are the ones that are making the films now and choosing almost as if by rote,” she says, her inimitable British accent still able to cut glass.“I don’t know how they choose the subjects to make, but there’s been very few films that I have wanted to go to.
I don’t want to be lectured. I don’t want to be taught things … practically every film now has a message, and I am sick of being messaged.”She did go to see Margot Robbie’s summer mega-hit “Barbie,” which was all about female empowerment and inclusion.Collins’ verdict: “I thought it was OK.“I didn’t think that the color was very good, frankly.
I thought it was kind of muddy. I thought [Robbie] was great, and all the cast was great, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. I didn’t come out singing any of the songs like I did when I saw Gene Kelly or Betty Grable or Carmen Miranda,” she said.“But then times have changed … this is what young people want today, I guess.”What she really misses, though, are rom-coms.“But they are very few and far between,” she said. “As for the sort of thing you’d see with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in the late ’80s or early ’90, you know, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ or ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ forget about it.
I mean, it would be lacerated, sadly, by the critics as being nothing but fluff. And everybody, it seems, wants to be lectured.
