{"id":2404642,"date":"2026-05-06T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404642"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:11:22","slug":"cary-elwes-looks-back-on-working-with-hollywood-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cary-elwes-looks-back-on-working-with-hollywood-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary Elwes Looks Back on Working With Hollywood Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As he\u2019s gotten older, actor Cary Elwes hasn\u2019t wasted time thinking about what he\u2019s lost. He\u2019d rather contemplate the things he\u2019s gained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t focus on the negative,\u201d Elwes, 63, tells AARP in a recent interview. \u201cThat\u2019s probably one of the luckiest things I have, is that I don\u2019t dwell on these things. There\u2019s nothing to be gained by dwelling on anything negative, is there?\u201d<\/p>\n

Elwes got his first taste of fame in his 20s, when he starred as Westley in 1987\u2019s The Princess Bride<\/i>, a fantasy-adventure-comedy directed and coproduced by Rob Reiner<\/a>. He\u2019ll soon be starring in the crime-drama series M.I.A.<\/i>, debuting May 7 on Peacock and May 14 on NBC. \u201cThis show grabs you literally from the first scene, and it doesn\u2019t let go,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

In a video call from his home in Los Angeles, Elwes shares how much he cherishes spending time with his family (wife Lisa Marie, 5\ufeff5\ufeff, whom he\u2019s been married to for nearly 26 years, and daughter Dominique, 19); what he learned from Reiner and Mel Brooks<\/a>; his new exercise routine; and why he thinks The Princess Bride<\/i> is so beloved. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Why do you think\u00a0The Princess Bride<\/i>\u00a0is constantly being discovered by new generations?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s obviously a very sweet movie filled with love and compassion. It\u2019s really a film about that: love, loyalty, sacrifice. These are themes that resonated with both Bill Goldman, the author, and Rob Reiner, which is what made him \u2014 one of the many reasons \u2014 perfect to direct it. Those themes resonate with people. They always will.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elwes starred with Robin Wright in \u201cThe Princess Bride\u201d in 1987. The film still resonates with many today. It\u2019s \u201cfilled with love and compassion,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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What do you think is the key to longevity for an actor?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been very lucky. I look at it as a real blessing. I\u2019ve gotten to work with remarkable artists throughout my life, and they\u2019ve all been lessons. Every piece of work you do is an education. It\u2019s an education in prep research. It\u2019s an education in working with other people, in character development and learning from every department. And I mean every department. So for me, it\u2019s like going to school. It\u2019s the greatest school.<\/span><\/p>\n

What did you learn from your new series, M.I.A.<\/i>?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I learned that I fell more and more in love with Bill Dubuque [M.I.A.<\/i>\u2019s creator\/writer\/executive producer] as a creative artist than I thought I would. He\u2019s just remarkable. My wife and I,\u00a0we binged <\/span>Ozark<\/i> [the Netflix series Dubuque cocreated] the day it came out.\u00a0 When I got the call that he wanted me to be in this show, I was elated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aarp.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As he\u2019s gotten older, actor Cary Elwes hasn\u2019t wasted time thinking about what he\u2019s lost. He\u2019d rather contemplate the things he\u2019s gained. \u201cI don\u2019t focus on the negative,\u201d Elwes, 63, tells AARP in a recent interview. \u201cThat\u2019s probably one of the luckiest things I have, is that I don\u2019t dwell on these things. There\u2019s nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[345414,469865,469863,469862,469867,469864,469866,469868,375816],"class_list":["post-2404642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cary-elwes","tag-cary-elwes-career","tag-cary-elwes-interview","tag-cary-elwes-new-show","tag-mel-brooks-cary-elwes","tag-mia-show","tag-rob-reiner-cary-elwes","tag-robin-hood-men-in-tights","tag-the-princess-bride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cary-Elwes-Looks-Back-on-Working-With-Hollywood-Legends.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404644,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404642\/revisions\/2404644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}