{"id":938498,"date":"2026-07-16T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:59:17","slug":"halle-berry-says-she-has-no-plans-to-retire-even-as-she-approaches-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938498\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry Says She Has No Plans to Retire Even As She Approaches 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halle Berry<\/a> says she’s entering her 60s with the same drive she’s always had \u2014 and no plans to slow down just yet.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday’s episode of the “Making Space with Hoda Kotb” podcast, the Oscar-winning actor said one of the things she finds frustrating about aging is the expectation that she should retire.<\/p>\n

Berry, who turns 60 on August 14, told podcast host Hoda Kotb that people often ask if she’ll continue making movies, and she says she sees no reason to stop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“People actually say, ‘But you’ve done so much. Like, isn’t it time to just quit all that and sit down somewhere and just be on a permanent vacation<\/a>?'” Berry said.<\/p>\n

Berry said she believes many people see retirement as the natural next step after years of hard work, but she isn’t convinced that’s the only path.<\/p>\n

“Why do I want to, after I’ve worked my whole life so hard and it’s made me feel all of myself, it’s validated who I was, it’s given me a sense of purpose,” Berry said. “Why should I now sit down and give that all away \u2014 and then what?”<\/p>\n

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

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“We’re expected to find something else to do, we’re expected to be on a permanent vacation as if life is somehow over, or we no longer have value, or what we have to say isn’t significant anymore,” Berry added.<\/p>\n

She said that she doesn’t buy into the idea that people have less to offer as they get older.<\/p>\n

“That’s the hard part for me, I’m always combating that with people and having to quiet them on that issue,” she said.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time that Berry has spoken about pushing back against stereotypes surrounding aging.<\/p>\n

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

“You get to this age where you feel like you’re being marginalized, devalued. You feel it at work. You feel it from society,” Berry told The Cut. “But I have adamantly decided I am not going to allow myself to be erased.”<\/p>\n

Berry isn’t the only celebrity who has said that age isn’t a reason to step away from work.<\/p>\n

Morgan Freeman<\/a> has said he has no plans to retire, even as he approaches 90.<\/p>\n

“There is a saying about old age \u2014 ‘keep moving’ \u2014 and what Clint Eastwood, says: ‘Don’t let the old man in,'” Freeman told AARP in a November interview.<\/p>\n

Patti Smith<\/a>, 79, has said that aging has only strengthened her desire to keep working.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halle Berry says she’s entering her 60s with the same drive she’s always had \u2014 and no plans…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":938499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[5997,1081,185,4565,171,68263,372705,81128,183852,10335,3546,377896,18416,4368,47109,17823,6620,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-938498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-age","tag-aging","tag-celebrities","tag-cut","tag-entertainment","tag-halle-berry","tag-hard-work","tag-hoda-kotb","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-patti-smith","tag-people","tag-permanent-vacation","tag-plan","tag-podcast","tag-reason","tag-thing","tag-time","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116928838791409526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}