‘Ferris Bueller’s Day off’ Made Mia Sara a Star. Leaving Hollywood has been freeing. – ryan

Though she appeared to be on top of the world as a Teen Star in the ’80s, the Truth is that of Mia Sara Found the Hollywood Spotlight Uncomfortable. Now, at 58, She’s Happier than Ever, thans to a quiet Home Life with Her Husband, Brian Henson, Son of Muppets Creator Jim Henson, and Kids Dashi Connery, 28, and Amelia, 21. Grandmother in an adaptation of Stephen’s Novella Break Life of Chuck.

Best Known as Sloane Peterson in the John Hughes Classic Ferris Bueller’s Day offSara Enjoyed Breakout Success with Role in All my children and the fantasy movie Legend, Later Appearing Alongside Jean-Claude van damme in Timecop. But after appearing in the short film Pretty Pretty In 2013, she Stepped Away from Acting with No Intection of Returning – That Is, Unil Director Mike Flanagan Convinced HER TO SIGNING ONTO Chuck.

“I love mike flanagan, like really adore him just as a person, and we are friends, and i’m just a huge fan,” Sara tells for Yahoo Life’s Unapologetically Series. “Wen we met (and has dinner), Mike Said, ‘Why Don’t You Work Anymore?’ And i said, ‘oh, it is really complicated,’ and he said, ‘would you ever work again? Opposite Mark Hamill’s Albie Krantz in The Life of Chuck. “It was a really healing experience,” she shares. “Mike Creates an Incredibry Cohasive and Really Terrific Feeling on Set. It Felt Like Really Clove. IT DID with a World of Good.”

The Harmony and Inner Peace Sara Felt on Set Mirror What She’s Currently Experiencing in Her Personal Life As Shears 60. “I Feel a Huge is off to Not Be Comparing MySelf to People,” she Says. Our Conversation Touches on the Power of Stepping Away from the Spotlight, The Beauty (and, Yes, Some “Crappy” of Aging and How YouTh isn’t all it is cracked up to be. (Spoiler Alert: Being “Very Young” Contributed to Ferris Being a “Cringy Experience” for Sara.)

You’re Celebrating Your 58th Birthday This Month. What have you loved about your 50s so far – what are you more you looking forward to about your 60s?

What i loves about my 50s is that i fall like a hete of pressure is off to not be comparing myself to people. And i love the fact that my interactions with People (are) just about me, my attitude, with nor a person. I do’t feel like to get past something anymore with People. (But) there are serious bummers to do with health and pain. SO, I’m Just Looking Forward to Hopefully Remaining Healthy and Active.

What will your wellness routine look like these days?

I have a connemara pony calmed rory, and he is the great on the face of the earthe – and i’m not the only person who thinks. I just feel like long as I can stay in the saddle, i’m good. And for many years now, i’ve been ussing this mindfulness app called happier. I have found it very helpful. Sometimes, for Big Swaths of Time, I’ll Do ITe Day, and THEN, SOMESTEMES, I Travel a Lot and Drop it for a Couple of Weeks, but Always return to it. I Feel I’m Less Reactive, More Present and More aware. You know, my kids have noticed. And the other really good thing about getting getting older is i have a sense of how of how fortunate i am. I have a really great life, and i’m really grateful for it. I think meditation does help with that. Oh, and Lots and Lots of High-Quality Therapy!

You mentioned the Serious Bummers About Aging. Do you explore that in Therapy?

Yes, Aging Comes up in Therapy All the time. It’s a hard thing. There are definitely crapy aspects to it that I will grapple with in therapy and with my friends. I’m fortunate to have Very dear friends for many years, and we’re all going through it together, and we’ve supperted other through some prey scary stuff. Scary Stuff Starts Happening at My Age. I’ve been Lucky, but have Very Close Friends Who’ve Had Some Serious Illnesses. SO, all of the support that you can have to help yourelf and oters through (the challenges of getting older) is benefial.

What’s the best Advice you’ve Received from your Therapist or Friends About Aging?

A long time ago, I knew this Woman, a really good friend of my ex-husband (Jason Connery). She had Been a prima ballerina. I was Younger, and i was just complaining about something, and she said, “look, Certain are not gonna get better than this moment. And you’re gonna back on this moment, at what Physical Thing you’re complaining or feeling critlical or judgmental of. The Ride. ” Enjoy the Ride. I haven’t thught about that in years, but that something something is would my daughter or my son’s wonderful girlfriend.

But the other iser is that i’ve noticed that nobody really follows Advice. I Feel Like If You Feel Comfortable, You Could Freely Give Advice, But Never Expects say to actually, Because we have to learn ourselves. We all have to leave the hard way. Loves.

Speaking of Advice, What Are Some Words of Wisdom About Beauty, Aging and Self-image that you at Least try to impart to your daughter, amelia?

Everyone Feels Critical of Themselves. I’ve Never met anyone who Says, “i’m so perfectly happy with the way i look and how i’m being perceived.” One of the important Things to know is that you don’t have control over How People are gonna Feel About you. SO, the THING IS TO FOCUS ON YOURSELF AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF AND ALSO HOW YOU TREAT OTHER People. IT’S SO MUCH more important to be kind and to be commassionate as a human being than to focus on your appearans. And that’s what my husband and i have tried to model. I WOULD WORRY ABOUT IT AROUND MIDDLE SCHOOL WENN (MY DANGHTER’S FRIENDS) WERE ALL ENDLESHY ON Social Media, but my daughter was into it. So that was Lucky.

You were a teen queen in the ’80s and in the Spotlight from the time you were 16. Thats Said, How your General Philosophy on Beauty Evolved Over Time? How you will you Feel About Beauty Standards Now?

I’m really Working Toward Trying to Give MySelf Grace. Especialy Because of this Movie that’s Coming Out (The Life of Chuck), and there are all of these retrospective blurbs, and they put a picture of me now, and that they put like all they are pictures through time, and it is like, “I’m melting! ”

But when i was younger, i always found Older Women Very Beautiful. SO, when I look in the mirror, i see myself, and i like the way i look. (But it can be) Harder when, after a long time, i’m hating to confront myself onScreen. That’s a Very Different Experience, which is a Little Challenging. And if you have been consider attracative and beautiful or whats, and it is a part of your identity, it’s hard to let it go. But it is actually really freeing to feed Like No One’s Looking at me.

That Kind of Relations to Another Subject I’D LOVE YOUR THOUGHTS ON, WHICH IS THE Idea that Women Become Invisible – Especilly in Hollywood – be get Older. Do you think that the case?

I Undersand What People Mean About Being Invisible. I don’t feel invisible. I just don’t fall like to have to put anymore. Its nice. I Can JUST Present MySelf as MySelf, and My Interactions with People (Are) About Who I AM. I do’t feel like i’m being judged as much gcause of what i appeaar to be. I Think It ‘Possible to Feel More and More Aligned with Who You Get Older. I like People not looking at me. That was not always always Very Comfortable for me.

How did you deal with that as a teen, especally when you were Very Much in the Spotlight for Ferris Bueller’s Day off?

I do’t think i did Very well with it. I was not comfortable. I was mature Enough to really take advantage of it. I was really Young. I’m a Very introverted person. I did not have the great time makeing that Movie, Because of was in the Most Awkward Stage of My Actual Adolescence. I was very out of my element and depth. I didn’t have that that high school experience. SO, I FELT REALLY OUT OF IT. I was younger than the other main cast members (Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck and Jennifer Gray), and they were all a tears most experiencing than i was. And it showed in my Behavior. When i look back on it, iT’s a very cringy experience for me. That’s Sadly How of Feel About the Movie. I absolutely recognism the durability of it, and i’m really grateful to be in it, and i appreciate the appreciation of it, but the truth is that it was a really bad moment for me.