"I want to age disgracefully REBECCA GIBNEY

Last year, a few months before her 60th birthday, Rebecca Gibney was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame. But that milestone does not signal a winding down, she tells The Weekly. Far from it!

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We've caught Rebecca Gibney in a brief and rare moment of downtime between projects. Her sunlit room is quiet. Beyond her window stretches the unspoiled green of New Zealand's Marlborough region. She has just finished filming Dancing with the Stars and is taking a breath before returning to Sydney to appear on stage for the first time in 23 years. Unable to stop completely, she is using the fleeting moment of stillness to read scripts sent by writers and producers.

“It’s amazing, particularly at my age,” says Rebecca, who turned 60 in December. She had imagined that, as she grew older, there would be periods of time when she wasn’t working.

“But that’s not the case, which is great. I don’t do very well not doing anything.”

She has a few projects on the horizon that she can’t yet talk about but is excited by the range and variety on offer. “Opportunities have come along that I would never have thought about, or that I’m surprised people are asking me to do,” she tells The Weekly.

Rebecca recently read a script about a woman who takes up boxing.

“When I got it, I turned to [Dancing with the Stars co-star, pro-boxer] Harry [Garside] and said, ‘Could you give me some lessons?’ He said, absolutely. That’s a possibility down the track. That frightens me a bit – getting punched in the face – but I might as well give it a go!

“I’m a great believer that when a door opens, you run through it until you choose to shut it. If a door is open for you, then there’s a reason for that.”

This abundance of opportunities is a situation Rebecca has cultivated. Over the course of her long and varied career, she has learnt not to accept the limitations the world presents her with. She believes in listening to her gut, and it has rarely steered her wrong. When she was in her late forties, she found herself hungry for a tough, interesting role. She created Lola, and the series