Ever wondered how Hollywood legend Michelle Pfeiffer – who turns 63 in April – still looks so great? Well, it’s pretty simple, really!

Speaking on British talk show Lorraine on Tuesday via video chat, the Stardust actress put down her youthful appearance to three simple things: sleeping, exercising and eating right.

“It’s what nobody really wants to hear: you have to eat right, you have to exercise, you have to sleep,” she told host Lorraine Kelly. “We’re always looking for that cheating magical bullet but it’s not right.

“When I’m not working, when I’m giving myself leeway, when I’m not eating good, I’m having too much wine, when I’m not on camera, I look like it. That’s really it. So that’s the big secret: there’s no secret!”

Michelle was on the show to talk about her new film French Exit, which is about a widowed New York socialite and her aimless son who move to Paris after she spends the last of her husband’s inheritance.

It comes after the actress graced the cover of Town & Country Magazine’s March issue. The lifestyle magazine shared a sneak peek of the stunning photoshoot on its Instagram account last week.

Michelle sported two different looks for the photoshoot, with the first image showing the actress posing in a dusty-pink oversized power suit. Keeping with the same theme, the second photo shows the mother-of-two posing up a storm, only this time in a gold Brunello Cucinelli suit.

Fans of Michelle’s were equally blown away by the stunning photoshoot, with one writing, “Love Michelle! She looks amazing!” Others commented on Michelle’s youthful looks, with one commenter saying she’s ageing “like a fine wine”.

In the accompanying interview, the actress, who’s appeared in several blockbuster hits, such as the 2007 film Hairspray, admitted that she “rarely” likes her own acting efforts and only watches her films once as “it’s just too painful”.

“The ones that make me cringe are typically when I got the best reviews,” she revealed. “I saw Scarface [film from 1983] and I went, ‘Eh, I’m okay’.”