And despite her managers saying that “It’s not time” for her to go gray, she said, “I’m going to be more powerful if I embrace where I am right now. It’s time…If I don’t do it now, I won’t have the chance to be salt and pepper. I always wanted to be salt and pepper!”
In 2022, McaDowell posted a photo of her cover on Style magazine, flaunting her gray hair and natural look. She captioned it, “As we age, we deserve dignity and pride.” She continued, “We deserve to feel glorious! I’ve always said there’s no expiration date on beauty.”
There’s also no expiration date on her acting career.
In 2021, MacDowell starred in the Netflix drama series Maid, alongside her daughter Margaret Qualley, 28, whom she had with ex-husband Paul Qualley. MacDowell and Qualley–married in 1986 and divorced in 1999–share two other children, son Justin and daughter Rainey.
Speaking with USA Today about working with her mom, Margaret said, “You walk in the room and you have your mom playing your mom–that’s the biggest cheat in the world. That goes all the way from the inherent eye rolls that are built-in when your mom says something.”
The young actor continues, sharing how there’s a moment in Maid where her mother, playing Paula, tells her character, Alex “that she’s proud of her. It felt like my mom was telling me that she was proud of me, and it was just one of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me.”
MacDowell is currently filming Goodrich–starring Mila Kunis, Kevin Pollak and Michael Keaton, whom she shared the screen with in 1996’s Multiplicity.
The film is written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, whom like Margaret, is one of many “nepo babies” of rising stars and starlets, with super famous parents.
Hallie, the daughter of Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated), and Charles Shyer (Baby Boom), appeared as a child actor in some of her parents’ films, like Father of the Bride and What Women Want.
There’s also Maya Hawke, daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, who stars in the popular Netflix show Stranger Things, and Kaia Gerber, whose mother is Cindy Crawford, is a world-renowned model who’s dating Austin Butler, of the biopic Elvis (2022).
The daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Dakota Johnson is famed for the Fifty Shades franchise, while Tom Hank’s son Colin has appeared in numerous movies and TV series.
Meanwhile, MacDowell said she hopes there will be more opportunities to act with her daughter.
She said, “Every moment was precious for me. I really wanted to do a good job because it meant everything to me because I was scared it would never happen again.”
Andie McDowell looks absolutely fabulous with gray hair and we love that she’s embracing her natural beauty!
What do you think of McDowell with gray hair? Are you also an advocate of gray pride?
