In 'Forever Young,' out Tuesday, the 'Parent Trap' star revisits her iconic roles and opens up about her tax case, bulimia struggles and Tinseltown memories: 'It was sort of agony and ecstasy.'
ahead of the memoir’s launch, the 75-year-old is quick to laugh and say of the release, “It’s a little bit nerve-wracking actually! You don’t know what people will make of it.”
When speaking about the late Disney, Mills is quick to express admiration and describe him as “a really sweet character” who was “warm and very accessible.”. So, Walt Disney was all of those wonderful films. I think what shocked me when the door of the Harlequin suite opened in the Dorchester hotel was actually, [that] it was a man. Walt Disney is actually a man and a man who looks like that,” she says laughing of her first encounter with him.
While chronicling her life, Mills offers readers a portrait of the Tinseltown she remembers, with mentions of who she worked alongside, including Maureen O’Hara, David Swift, Nancy Olson, herbody double Susan Henning and more. “The Hollywood that I knew has gone so I really enjoyed going back and visiting those places in my memory. It was sort of agony and ecstasy,” Mills says.
“I’d love to have played it. It’s fascinating. And to work with [Stanley] Kubrick, James Mason and Shelley Winters — wow,” she tells. In her memoir, Mills writes about the irony that Sue Lyon would forever be labeled as the girl who played Lolita, whereas she would be Pollyanna, something perhaps much easier to embrace.“Absolutely chalk and cheese aren’t they? People expected her to be the nymphet, even when they met her. I think people did expect me to be a bit like Pollyanna,” she says.
In the book, Mills also details the struggles she faced behind the scenes as a young girl rising to fame while also yearning for her own identity apart from the one created for her in the public eye, echoing what the new generation of Disney stars have been outspoken about. “There was the me, who I thought I was — looking at the world, trying to make sense of everything.
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