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“I remember once I landed at a very small airport in Australia with not a thing around it but these 10 huts,” Evans — who won a Golden Globe playing the role of Krystle Carrington on the show — tells PEOPLE in an interview in this week’s magazine.
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All that changed in 2019, months before the pandemic shut down the planet, when Evans fell in love with a script she’d read for the touchingly dark comedySwan Songand soon found herself flying to Sandusky, Ohio, to shoot her first movie in decades.
Linda Evans in her latest movie, Swan Song.Chris Stephens/Courtesy Magnolia Pictures
Evans plays a socialite alongside Udo Kier in the movie, now in theaters and on demand Friday.
“I’m in love with this film,” she says. “I had to do it. It was poignant the way [screenwriter and director Todd Stephens] captured what it’s like to be older and struggling with life. It really touched me.”
Evans' own struggle with life started in 2006, when her two sisters and close friend were diagnosed with serious illnesses. She felt powerless to help her loved ones for the first time in her life and was soon plunged into a depression.
“I fell apart big time,” she says. “I really had to fight my way back.”
Six years later, a slipped disc left her in physical agony and for two years her depression returned.
“The pain was so bad,” says Evans, who eventually underwent four orthoscopic surgeries to alleviate the problem.
Now living on 70 acres in Washington, Evans is happy to have put the pain-filled past few years behind her.
And her experience shootingSwan Songhas confirmed what she has always believed about life’s infinite possibilities.
“What are the odds that I’d be back working at 78?” says Evans. “It’s so outrageous, but as I always love to say, ‘Anything is possible.'”
source: people.com
