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during a shake up in the company. Do you think the audience is ultimately looking to be entertained by her failure, or inspired by her success? DM: I think the audience is watching to see what happens. We all live on the edge of not knowing whether we're going to be a failure or a success, and failure and success is something that is measured by ego. It could be measured in many different ways. I don't know if that is a proven statistic, but I happen to think that women are stronger than men in many ways. Women turn shit around all the time. There are a lot of success stories in Corporate America of how women have turned things around. So, I don't really know where that statistic comes from and I don't think it's a male or female thing, necessarily. Half of it is luck and timing, anyway. Do you think someone can become extremely successful playing by the rules, or do you think that rules must be broken while chasing a dream? DM: A rebel has to break rules. You have to take chances, and you have to fall on your face before you get back up and know that you made a mistake, and you can try to do it differently. I think you have to break the rules to a degree… in a smart way. Who in your life has made you most proud to have been born a woman? DM: It's interesting, because I wanted to have a son, but I got daughters. I'm proud that they ended up being girls, because they're magnificent. I look at Malala [Yousafzai] paving the way. She was tortured; being a woman representing a society and getting shot in the head, and then going out there and being an activist. There's the Gloria Steinems of the world, and a billion other women of the world. Had they been born men… I just think that gender isn't necessarily the answer. The gender discussion now is so big that sometimes people aren't born women and they choose to become them. And, hey, that's a beautiful thing too. Why do you think ageism is so prevalent in American culture specifically? DM: Oh God! Well I think it's not just America, unfortunately. Since you live in Italy for part of the year, would you say it is similar or different in that respect? DM: I feel young for my age, to a degree, but my body doesn't always feel so young because I'm not, and it's just how it is. Throughout history, men were always the presidents in America. We still haven't had an American president that's a female. When I'm in Europe, people appreciate people, whether they have leathery skin or not. It's about character and their souls and their mind. I do feel appreciated in America, because I think it's about the frame of mind of the person who might feel the ageism. I might not be able to go out and get a job that a 20-year-old is getting, but I don't try to do that. In fact, when I was in my late 20s and early 30s, I was chasing after the roles of grandmothers on sitcoms. I don't care about the number. As an actor, we all have to be different shapes, sizes, colors, and have imperfections. That's what makes us look interesting. What are your thoughts on Younger's lead character Liza relaunching her career in publishing by lying about her age? The series starts off with her pretending to be 26, although she is a 40-year-old divorcee with a teenage daughter. DM: When the series starts off, her character was damaged. She was a divorcee suffering from a broken heart, a broken family, living in the suburbs, truly devoting herself to her child, which we all do. Suddenly she is single and going, "Oh my God, my daughter is moving out and going to college. What the hell am I going to do?" When she comes to my apartment, I am there to save her and wrap her up in my arms and be a friend first. I tell her, "I love you, you're great, you're beautiful." When all of these [job] interviews are not working out, I suggest she have some fun and change it up. When I first started my career, I didn't have a lot of acting credits and I fudged a little bit on my resume to make it look better than it was, because I wanted to get some action. I don't think there's anything wrong with hustling, embellishing, and trying to convince people that you can do the job. Speaking of this generation leading the way, what's one piece of technology that you can't live without, personally and professionally? DM: Instagram, hands down! I'm able to post a still-life image that I find beautiful, or I'm able to show something that I shoot a picture of that's funny and makes people laugh. I'm able to share a photograph of a throwback from a moment in my life. It's a reflection of my sense of style, my sense of photography, my sense of depth of field, color, and comedy. To me, Instagram is really that and I keep my feed positive. On the flip side of it, when people come after me for my anti-Trump stuff or political stuff, I just block certain people. I don't want to read into it and fall down that rabbit hole. I love WhatsApp because you can talk to anybody all over the world, and I also love how in Europe everyone walks down the street voice messaging into their phone's mic, instead of texting. That's my new favorite thing to do. Towards the end of season six of Younger, Maggie is having a steamy fling with actress Nicole Ari Parker, who guest stars on the show. What was that like? DM: You know, Nicole Ari Parker did the two episodes of our show and we never closed out the fact that we're having this little affair. Then I date a guy after her. It shows that Maggie's hot to trot, and she's on the market Your character is very fluid, sexually? DM: Actually, she's not fluid, but she is just seduced by a single moment with a man in that one episode. So, she's not fluid. But if Darren [Star] decides I'm fluid in season seven, then I guess I will be [laughs]. But he decided, at least in season six, that I wasn't, and I'm fine with that. If I have to,