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YOU’LL BE 60 LATER THIS MONTH. WHAT MOST EXCITES YOU ABOUT ENTERING YOUR SEVENTH DECADE? Partly the fact that I can say, “I'm 60.” I can't quite believe it. But I'm doing

things that I really enjoy. And I'm in a stage of my life where I'm taking on some new responsibilities, like I've just become the artistic director of the Pitlochry

Festival Theatre in Scotland. It's something I've never done before and it's really exciting. It’s great to be doing something new, but also be giving back in a way, back to

my country and back to the arts that I came from. It's a really lovely time actually. YOU WON YOUR FIRST EMMY LAST SEPTEMBER, FOR BEST REALITY SHOW HOST (FOR _THE TRAITORS_.) HOW DID IT

FEEL TO FINALLY GET THAT AWARD AT THIS STAGE OF YOUR CAREER? I've been nominated about six times for various things, and _The Good Wife_ quite a few times, so to win two for hosting a

competition reality show was kind of perfect. It was completely out of left field, completely nuts and unexpected. I've always approached things a little differently. So it was a really

lovely moment. And then right after the awards, I went to dinner with my husband and then went to the airport to fly back to Glasgow, where I was working on a film with Brian Cox. That’s

pretty typical of my life. YOU OPENED YOUR OWN BAR IN NEW YORK CITY CALLED CLUB CUMMING. HOW OFTEN DO YOU VISIT? I've not been to Club Cumming much this year, but I might pop down

tonight. I love it because it sort of feels like this constant in my life. Whenever I go, it's always these lovely people who work there, and it's just got a great sense of

community and family. Our ethos is about kindness and that anything can happen. That's our motto. YOU’VE STARRED ON BROADWAY, ACTED IN BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES AND WRITTEN BEST-SELLING BOOKS.

WHAT’S NEXT ON YOUR BUCKET LIST? I think the notion of a bucket list is kind of wrong, actually. If you want to do something, go and do it. Don't put it on a list and think, _I want to

do this before I die_. What if you die tomorrow? Just go and do the things. Seize the day. A couple of years ago, I decided I'd like to do a dance piece, and I ended up doing this

one-man dance-theater piece about (Scottish poet) Robert Burns. I just wanted to use my body in a different way. WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE NOW WOULD SHOCK YOUR YOUNGER SELF? There's so many

things. Like living in America. I'd never even been to America until I was 30. Or that I'm married to a man, or that I live in this country and in the Scottish Highlands, or the

fact that wherever I go in the world, people know who I am, things like that. That's something I would never have expected (when I was younger). What I would have hoped for back then is

that I’d end up doing what I want to do and I’d still be as eclectic. That's been a constant all my life. I think that's more important than all that other stuff.