'Nashville' Star Connie Britton Doesn't Want To Talk About Aging

The actress said she doesn't think of herself as old.

ByABC News

February 15, 2013, 10:47 AM

Feb. 16, 2013 --

"Just drawing on my own experience, I never — I never — personally reference myself as old. I don’t think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man. I might have a conversation with some girlfriends — what are we doing about the lines around our eyes — but to a man? There are certain things — it would just be demystifying and disempowering."

Connie Britton Feels The Guilt Of Motherhood

--"Nashville" star Connie Britton reveals her hesitations to discuss the aging process in a fascinating New York Times magazine profile that includes a number of major bombshells (example: she was set to play Dorothy in "Jerry Maguire" until Renee Zellweger nabbed the role at the last minute), and some classic Connie-isms ("My life started being awesome five years ago”). Apparently Britton has been extremely cautious about the way her "Nashville" character deals with aging, and has purposefully skipped lines and altered scenes that focused too much on the "aging country star" angle. [ NY Times]