"Joan is Alexis."
"When Aaron Spelling said, 'Joan is Alexis,' that haunted me for so long," Collins told British Vogue in a new interview about her role as Wallis Simpson in her latest project biopic My Duchess.
"I said, 'Aaron, why did you say that? You know that's not true.'"
"Honey, it gets headlines."
When a Character Becomes Your Identity
But that success came with a price Collins is still paying.
In one of his final interviews before his death in 2006, Spelling said of Collins: "We didn't write Joan Collins. She played Joan Collins. Am I right? We wrote a character, but the character could have been played by 50 people, and 49 of them would have failed. She made it work."
It also alluded to something else: that Joan Collins and Alexis Carrington weren't that different. And, that the scheming, ruthless woman on screen was just Collins being herself.
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"I happen to think that Alexis was a very vulnerable and sad character," Collins told PEOPLE in 2023. "Because she had been banished from her children by Blake Carrington, who was a murderer. You know? We never hear about this, of course, because he's a man."
Collins played Alexis for eight of Dynasty's nine seasons, from 1981 to 1989. She poured everything into herself into creating a complex, layered character — vulnerable beneath the armor, wounded beneath the wit.
And when her own producer said it out loud — and admitted he said it just for the publicity — it hurt in a way that lasted decades.
Some headlines aren't worth it.
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