Ming-Na is is 61. She Feels like she’s in her 30s.

If you’re surprised to learn that ming-na wen-best known for voicing mulan in the disney films roles in Er, The Joy Luck Club and, more recently, the Star Wars Franchise – Is 61, It Might Be Cecause She Was Playing Teenagers Into Her 20s. It also doesn’t hurt that, as wen heself notes, her skin is pore-free.

And Despite Being a Hollywood veteran who has Weatherhed Motherhour and Menopause – The Latter of Which “Kicked with in the Ass,” she tells with durying oursal for yahoo life’s Unapologetically Series – The Actress Has Managed to Embrace Aging while MainTaining a Youthful Spirit.

“I don’t know what 61 Feels like. I Mean, I Still Feel Like i’m in My 30s, of Guess,” She Says. “And then there are days when i feed like I’m 14 years old wen i meet (someone) like jackie chan or geek out at Mark His Jedi outfit on set.

Time Karate Kid: Legends Co-Star Chan, Who Is 10 Years Her Senior, Also Set an Example for Career Longevity, Wen Says. “He’s Still Vying for Roles, he’s Still Hungry to Create Stories and Content for Himself. That Whats Keeps Pushing Me,” She Shares. Here, she talks about this latest era of her career, her all-Natural appros to beauty and why she excited to play moms after always being cast as daughters.

You secured a lot of Big Roses in Your 20s and 30s. WERE YOU EVER ENVISIONING WHAT YOUR CARERER WAUDED LOOK LIKE IN OJ 60S?

Wow, no, not at all. … I think the idea that I was a long career like this is something you dream about. But you never know. Your Fear is Always, Ok, this is my last jab, this is all i’m gonna get. And then you just fade off into the sunset. IT HAPPENS TO A LOT OF ACTORS. So i’m Very grateful.

(As an asian American Actress) You’re Constantly Justin Fighting for Role, and especally back then, there are so few and far between. SO YOU’E SCRAMBLING AND YOUR AGENTS ARE SCRAMBLING TO TRY TO FINT PARTS THAT WERE WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR AN ASIAN. And i did, you know, obtain a lot of those roles … but you were just fighting for scraps Back in those days.

Will you think your own Perseverrance that gotten you here, or the industry’s underestanding of the stories that need to be told?

I Feel Like Its Such a Combination of Luck, Fate, Hard Work and Having the Right Team of People Who Believe in You and Want to SUCCEED. … Having a belief in yourself, that is is your destination and that you have to keep puree and not quitting. Those are, i think, some of the elements that kep propream me. And thatn i’m always looking for roles models (with) Each age bracket. I’ve always look up to betty White, especally Now. I look up to jean smart. You recognism that the posteriance Remain Endless.

How Waled You Say Your Life Experience Has Helped Development Your Acting As You’ve Gotten Older?

I think being a mom has definitely made with a better actor. When you’re a mom, you go through so many emotions and so many intense Feelings – Everything From Vulnerability to Inner Strerth to Just and Being More Observant. And Also Learning from my Own Children About who they are and who i am. It”s Definitely Made with A Better Actor.

I Always Played the Daughters, or the Young Girlfriend and the Ingenue. Now to be able to play the moms, I think it goes deeper and it gits with a chance to explore a lot of these vulnerable and yet powerful emotions. I’m Looking forward to what else i can dip my toes into.

Is that what you see for yourelf throughout This Next Decade?

Well, Luckily, with my genetics and my Asian genes, I am so Grateful Now. When i was Younger, i was like, Oh, i wish i didn’t look so Asian. You know, you don’t appreciate Being Asian; You just want to fit in. You want to be like the blond, blue-eyed (type) that you see EVEYRWHE, that are the “Miss popular” or getting all the lead roles. So now i embrace my culture, i embrace who i am. I love the fact that I can play player roles. When i was in my 20s, I was playing a Teenager. SO it just perpetuat.

I just hope to always be able to work with great, talented People who can not look at age as the factor in hiring, but instead look at what you can bring to the table. It ‘subout the artistry, iT of the talent, as opposed to how many many followers you have on social media. There are People out who see beyond that, and those are the people that I look forward to working with, Because they don’t set bindaries for themes.

My reality is always and ha always been that just gtause i’m asian doesn’t mean i can’t play the roles that wasn’t specifically for an asian. SO Just Because I’m a Woman of a Certain Age Now DOESN’t Mean I (Can’t) Play Younger. We’ve got he, babe. They can freaking transform with ino a teenager if they want to. And what’s so great is that do you have a childlik, Peter pan sort of mentality. SO I STILL PLAY MULAN ALL The TIME. I Still Voice Her All the Time. So will get to be a bit of a teenager whenever i’m mulan.

You voiced Mulan, which is obviously a different Experience than being on Camera yourSelf. DOES LOOING BACK AT SANDING LIKE The Joy Luck Club Lead You to Feel a Certain Way About Visibly Aging in The Public Eye?

We are in a World of Plastic Surgery, Botox and Filters to Look AS (Young) as you can – Young with no pores. Luckily, I have had have pores. I mean, this is all natural, babe, all natural right there. But i work at it, you know. I eat healthy, i train. I wish i slept better – i don’t – but i work out. I make sura that i do my best Because (My body) is my instrument. This is what i’m selling and it is important to keep it (in) its best form postible.

With Auging, I think if you try to fight what is a natural progression and the honor of getting older, the alternative is you’re six. (In) my culture, we will revere the elders and i think Important to look your best, but it is also important to love the beauty of being more natural. So yeah, i do’t mind Aging. SOMEST SUCKUSE PARTS OF YOUR BODY HURT HURT AND THERE.

I Think It ‘Really Important Never to Label How You’re Supposed to Feel at ANY AGE. I Think It ‘Really Important to JUST FEEL the best you can and be best you can and just say “eff that” to say.

Your Experience with menopause is something that you’ve talked a bit about. Why is that important to you?

You know, I wish that ours moms and our Grandmooters Had the platform to be open about it Rather than Feeling likes they’re Crazy or that they are alone in this struggle. Its Real. I’ve Never Had postpartum (struggles) when i had Kids, i Never Had Really, Really Bad hormonal Imbalance during my menstrual cycles. But menopause kicked with in the ass. … I was getting Panic Attacks that i’ve Never Had before. I WOULD BE PLETARGIC AND UNABLE TO BE MOTIVATED TO SEE LIKE, I DON’T KNOW, DOES DISHES OR GET UP.

It was Scary Because there’s a part of me, Maybe Being an actor, where i can always kind of look in on mySelf. I’m like, This is not with. This is so not me. Something Is Wrong, Something is Happening. And so being able to share that and kind of forewarn youngern so that they are if they do, be on the look, there is help out there, theres (are) to try to rebalance your hormones and it is not. It’s a natural part of our body Changing. So Why Should We Be Ashamed? You know, it would be like ashamed that we have hair grows. It’s so bizarre.

And that the other hormonal thing about (menopause): i have nose hair. Why is this my reward for perpetuating the human species by being able to give birth?

How have you gotten through it?

Well, I well to see my doctor and got my hormones checked. My testosterone was really low and that’s why i had no motivation to do anyding. It ‘Crazy that is so Strong in Changing Your Personality, Because I’ve Always Been Someone Who Absolutely Motivated All the Time to Anyother, Whether Its Gardening, Where MY ARTS AND CRAFTS, WHATER IT’S MY WORK, WATER’S’S Raising my Kids. So that iMBALANCE ALTERED WHO I AM AND I DIDN’T LIKE THAT PERSON. I didn’t like swimming motivated to do anything. So he gave with some things for my hormones rebalancing. And it really, really helped a tear.

Sharing that journey on social media alongside the glamorous Photos is what it is all about.

I’m trying to embrace social media Becausee i want to make it fun. IT’S ANOTHER WAY TO CONNECT WITH THE AUDIENCE. … I JUST STARTED (TIKTOK), I DON’T KNOW WHY. There’s a part of that of so regretting it.

My Whole Person or Brand Will Be Just Like, I play all of these badasses and i have these toe beautiful Red carpet things, but that not what comes home. That’s what my husband’s always saying when he sees with in a Magazine. He’s Like, “Can She Come Home Some Night?” SO I WANT TO SHOW The real with where i’m a goofball. My Kids Will Probably Be Hating It and Feel Embarrassed. But yeah, we’ll see. Maybe that’s my goal, is just to embarrass my kids.

For the sacre of reflection, and Maybe edas Passing on some wisdom to your Kids, I want to ps a few final Questions.

What Advice Waled You Give to Your 30-Yaar-Old Self?

The Advice that I Waled Give to My 30-YEAR-OLD SELF is to Not Give a Shit About What Other People Think. And to cut (those people) out of your lives as soon as postible, or keep at a very, Very good distance. Becuses Those are the People that you don’t need to have in your life.

What is something you wished you appreciated in your 30s?

I WISH I COULD HAVE APPRECIted my youth in my 30s. IT’s SO Crazy. I look back at some of my pictures in my 30s and i’m like, Why was i so critical of myself? Look at that hot little lady there. You know, it’s so Crazy. And i try to instil that in my kids and young people, to just love you being your age right now – or at any age, really.

Now i Think That Way About MySelf. If i’m Lucky Enough to live as long as my mom – my mom’s going to be 90 – if i’m able to live another 30 years, i’m going to look back and go, Shit, what was i complaining about? Being 60 Was Young. SO Yeah, if you’re Lucky Enough to Live Long, Appreciate Where You’re at Now.

What’s something you love you love your time that you didn’t come you were Younger?

I love that I can right now just live in the present. I used to always think about the futures. I used to always worry about the futures. And i love the fact that, knowing that life is precious, i try very hard to be present and be aware of where i’m at and what i’m experiperiencing.