Shrinking star Wendie Malick isn’t holding her wellness secrets captive.
The youthful-looking actor, 75, plays Dr. Julie Baram opposite Harrison Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades on the Apple TV show, which has been renewed for season four. She recently spoke to People at a Shrinking FYC event in Los Angeles, where she revealed what keeps her healthy.
“I think one of the best things you can do is laugh as much as possible,” she told the publication. “And then you get happy wrinkles. My mom had wrinkles, but they were happy ones because she spent an awful lot of her life in humor. And I think that’s a pretty amazing way to go.”
Malick also credits eating well and daily workouts to staying in shape, though she does occasionally indulge.
“I love martinis, but I’m trying to do a few less of those because I know it’s not as good for us as we once thought,” Malick shared. “But for the most part I try to stay healthy and not overthink it.”
In addition to Shrinking, fans might also recognize Malick from Just Shoot Me! and Hot in Cleveland, the latter of which her castmate Valerie Bertinelli has openly said should be rebooted. But Malick has different feelings.
“I don’t know because it would be so weird without Betty,” she said of the late Betty White, who co-starred with them on the TV Land sitcom from 2010 to 2015. White died in 2021, aged 99.
“I think sometimes the experience was so wonderful that you want to just savor that and hold on to it and just store it in your heart.”
Malick has voiced similar feelings about reboots before. After appearing on season 11 of the original run of Frasier as Ronee Lawrence — the childhood babysitter of Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and his brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce), who was introduced in the show as a love interest of their father Martin (John Mahoney) — she was asked in 2024 about appearing on the show’s two-season reboot. While she didn’t rule it out, Malick did say she would not want to reprise the role of Ronee due to the fact that Mahoney died in 2018.
“I had such a connection to John Mahoney playing his love interest and finally marrying him that I’m not sure that I want to revisit that,” she told TV Insider in 2024.
Malick continued: “That was something that was such a lovely ride, and that season was so much fun and I was honored to be part of it. And sometimes I think you feel like you took your character as far as you could, and then maybe you just leave it and savor those memories.
“Never say never, but that’s my gut feeling.”
