MICHAEL DOUGLAS & KATHLEEN TURNER,

The Body Heat star, 66, reunites with her Romancing the Stone and TheWar of the Roses film partner Michael Douglas, 76, in the third and final season of The Kominsky Method (May 28 on Netflix). Turner reprises her role as Roz, the ex-wife of Sandy (Douglas), complicating his life when she returns to L.A.

What was it like playing Roz? [Series creator] Chuck Lorre promised me some really great wiseass stuff, which I adore, and Michael and I just fall into place. Sandy and Roz had a terrible marriage and ended up hating each other. A little bit of War of the Roses goes on, so who else would play her? That was very irresistible.

Tell us about your activism. I’ve been a supporter of Planned Parenthood since I was in college. But the two major organizations that I serve on the board of are Citymeals on Wheels and People for the American Way, started by Norman Lear. In my family, it was expected that we would get involved and be part of making things better.

Body Heat launched your career in the 1980s, but it made you a femme fatale. Did you love or hate that? I was determined that there was no way I was going to get stuck in that [kind of role]. So my second film, The Man With Two Brains, was a spoof of a femme fatale. And in Romancing the Stone, she was more of a nerd. contrast to the one before. I don’t have a body of work that you can absolutely say, “Oh, this is her type.”

Now that you’ve had your COVID vaccinations, what was one of the first things you did? I had a dinner party for friends who are vaccinated. We sat there without masks, sipped wine and sat at the table like the old days. And it was weird because, in part, it felt so natural. But the other part was, “I can’t believe we’re doing this!”