The British actress, nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her role as a woman with Alzheimer’s disease, keeps out of the usual celebrity circus, having always preferred to do things her way.

Her sheep breeding home in Wales, which she has owned since the 1970’s, with it’s corrugated roof and ramshackle doors, is a far cry from the extravagance and decadent lifestyle of Hollywood.

On a visit to her farm in an attempt persuade Julie to do a reprise of their famous movie, Don’t Look Now, Donald Sutherland was so cold he slept in his overcoat., and he came away amazed at finding a yard filled with chickens, ducks and cats.

The main problem, as far as Sutherland was concerned, was not the absence of toilet paper – Julie rips up newspapers for use instead – didn’t put him off, it was the lack of central heating. Julie wore heavy sweaters and huddled next to the Aga for warmth, then went to bed as soon as night fell to avoid the diving temperature.

Donald high-tailed it back into town after just one night: “It was so cold in that house that I had to sleep in all my clothes including my overcoat, and I still wasn’t warm.”

Julie rents out her farm in Powys, Wales, and stays instead in one of the barns on her land, adapted into a home. “I always hang my washing up outside, or even on a pulley thing,” she volunteers. “It is a complete waste of energy to use dryers.”

No dryers and using torn up newspaper for toilet paper – this is going too far. She may be one of favorite mature women, but it sounds like the rumors of her being eccentric and reclusive to the point of being weird just might be true!

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However, ten years ago she astonished fans when she admitted she’d had a face-lift.

She is quoted as saying: “In America, people who are older than you appear to be younger,” she said. “It is really undermining. You know they are older than you, yet you look like their mother.”

“There is such an emphasis on looks. I know what I look like – then I look in the mirror and don’t look like the person I think I look like. We are all dealing with changes in that way, over a certain age. We watch our skin change, and I don’t think that is such an easy thing to do.”

Would she consider more plastic surgery?

“I am tempted every time I look in the mirror,” she says. “You want your familiar face back when you see all the lines around your chin, neck, eyes, mouth, your bloody arms and everything else.”

Fortunately for the Academy Award winning actress her face lift didn’t leave her looking weird and plastic.

I’d sure as hell like the name of her surgeon. He could be giving lessons to more than a few of the aging stars who have undergone plastic surgery hoping to hold off Father Time, only to discover they may be holding off the wrinkles but their faces are now frozen and macabre.

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