’Old the front page – Harry Potter star Zoe Wanamaker still enjoys 3am booze benders at 72.
And the actress, who was Madam Hooch in The Philosopher’s Stone, says she has no plans to slow down in the bedroom.
Zoe said: “It is important for younger people to see that older people have not turned off a switch.
"I do want to go out dancing and get sweaty and drink too much, and go home at three in the morning, and I do want to have sex, and I do want to dress up how I want to, and I want to have a life and choose what I want to do.”
Zoe, who was speaking to Good Housekeeping, is married to actor Gawn Grainger, 83, and is best known for BBC sitcom My Family but has also appeared on TV in Killing Eve and Britannia.
But she is most looking forward to getting back to theatre, saying: “I fell in love with the business as a child.
"My parents, being immigrants, took us to everything. I miss sitting in an audience and hearing that silence when something powerful is going on.”
Zoe's comments come after Dame Judi Dench's ambitions for the next five years are to “stay alive” and get some exciting parts to play which are not “just old women”.
The acclaimed actor, 86, has won an Oscar and six Baftas but is just keen to do something interesting when it comes to her next role on stage or screen.
Asked about her hopes and dreams for the next half decade, she said: “Where do I want to be in five years? I would like to be alive.
"Not only do I want to be alive but I would like to be offered a part that is not some old woman in a home somewhere.
“I would like to be a crocodile that turns into a dragon and has to walk a tightrope. Yes I would do that. What do I want my legacy to be?
"I would like it to be "Don't take yourself too seriously and for goodness sake just get on and have fun and have tattoos.”
