Glenn Close is one of the once renowned actresses in Hollywood, and her career has spanned many decades. She’s been nominated for six Academy Awards, and many experts are saying that she may finally win this year for her work in The Wife.

Now, Close has opened up about how she has never felt like the typical Hollywood star in terms of looks.

“I’m not the classic, perfect Hollywood beauty,” she said. “I came into my movie-acting profession older than most people. I played Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp when I was thirty-something, so I missed playing the ingenue. Also, I don’t think I have the kind of looks for those kinds of parts,” Glenn continues, adding, “Then I went right into The Big Chill playing another mother, then right into The Natural another nurturing mother figure. I didn’t make the decision to stop playing those characters. You hope you’ll be offered a part that can show something different.”

Though Close is arguably best known for her role in the movie Fatal Attraction, she has revealed that she nearly did not get the part because producers felt she was not sexy enough.

“…Some of the producers were absolutely adamant I was wrong for the part because they didn’t know if I could be sexy,” Close said. “I loved it when I learned that. Thank god I didn’t know it then. They didn’t even want to meet me when I came out to Los Angeles to audition because they were so mortified that they’d just have to turn me down.”

“I’ve analyzed what I think is a beautiful face. Big eyes, little nose, beautiful mouth,” she continued. “And it helps if you have lighter eyes. But the little nose is very important. I do not have a little nose. If they trust what I tell them about how to light my face, then I look beautiful.”

In the end, Close has no regrets about forgoing changing her body to fit the standards of Hollywood beauty.

“‘Character actor’ is probably a silly phrase, because everybody who plays anybody is playing a character, but I’ve never been the glam person,” Close said. “When it comes to ‘pretty people,’ I don’t know what the demographics are, but most people aren’t pretty. Hollywood was built on mystery and glamour, and what people wanted to look like. That’s what women wanted, to be that person on the screen. Who has time for it? There’s nothing more boring to me than personal maintenance.”

Close’s attitude about aging is so refreshing, and we need more actors in Hollywood like her!