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Halle Berry says she doesn’t understand why people think 60 is the age to stop working

Halle Berry says she doesn’t understand why people think 60 is the age to stop working

Halle Berry says she’s entering age 60 with the same drive she’s always had and has no plans to slow down just yet. On Wednesday’s episode of the “Making Space with Hoda Kotb” podcast, the Oscar-winning actress said one of the things she finds frustrating about aging is the expectation of retiring. Berry, who turns

Halle Berry says she’s entering age 60 with the same drive she’s always had and has no plans to slow down just yet.

On Wednesday’s episode of the “Making Space with Hoda Kotb” podcast, the Oscar-winning actress said one of the things she finds frustrating about aging is the expectation of retiring.

Berry, who turns 60 on August 14, told podcast host Hoda Kotb that people often ask her if she will continue making movies and she says she sees no reason to stop.

“People really say, ‘But you’ve done a lot. Isn’t it time to leave all that and sit somewhere and be on a permanent vacation?'” Berry said.

Berry said she believes many people see retirement as the natural next step after years of hard work, but she’s not convinced it’s the only path.

“Why do I want to do it, after I’ve worked so hard my whole life and it’s made me feel like myself, validated who I was and given me a sense of purpose,” Berry said. “Why should I sit down now and reveal everything, and then what?”

Berry said the assumption that older adults should retire is also part of what makes people feel “invisible” as they age.

“We are expected to find something else to do, we are expected to be on permanent vacation, as if life has somehow ended, or we no longer have value, or what we have to say is no longer meaningful,” Berry added.

He said he doesn’t believe in the idea that people have less to offer as they age.

“That’s the hard part for me, I’m always fighting that with people and having to shut them up about it,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Berry has talked about fighting stereotypes surrounding aging.

In a February interview with “The Cut,” Berry said she resonated with her role as a middle-aged insurance broker in her latest film, “Crime 101.”

“You get to this age where you feel marginalized, devalued. You feel it at work. You feel it in society,” Berry told The Cut. “But I have firmly decided that I will not allow myself to be erased.”

Berry isn’t the only celebrity who has said that age is no reason to quit your job.

Morgan Freeman has said he has no plans to retire, even as he approaches age 90.

“There’s a saying about old age: ‘Keep moving,’ and what Clint Eastwood says: ‘Don’t let the old man in,'” Freeman told AARP in an interview in November.

Patti Smith, 79, has said that aging has only strengthened her desire to continue working.

“And I have so much to do and so many things I want to do, so many things I want to write,” Smith said during a podcast appearance in January.