Regina King has admitted she feels more "interesting" as she approaches 50

In an interview with British Vogue magazine, she said: "I feel like I'm so much more interesting now, as a soon to be 50-year-old woman, than I was at 25.

"I can bring so much more to the table. I think that's the same for all people. You may not have the stamina that you had at 25, but what you know now? So much better."

Regina – who made her directorial feature film debut with 'One Night in Miami' last year – recently explained how she had no plans to "compromise" her "integrity" as she discovers where she wants to be in life.

The Oscar-winning actress told InStyle magazine: "Whatever is successful is for that artist. What works for me doesn’t work for Meryl. What works for me is that I am not making lateral moves, that I am on an upward trajectory. A lot of this I’m discovering along the way, but I am not compromising my integrity. I’m always continuing to dream."

The 49-year-old star also confessed that she is still trying to process the tragedies and difficulties faced across the world in 2020 – including the deaths of basketball star Kobe Bryant and actor Chadwick Boseman.

Regina said: "I’m still in a place of, 'F***. We lost Kobe and Chadwick. And we had an election!' My mind is exhausted. What I’m doing to get through it is just being honest about that. I’m having moments when I feel like it is really hard to be optimistic, so I’m sharing that with friends and family. I have those women who help prop me up when I’m feeling like, ‘I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is Armageddon. I don’t know how to get through this.'"