Lloyd,
Yes, you can save yourself from the trouble of worrying about collinearity caused by interacting terms. Interaction terms and its components are usually correlated and are so correctly. There is no magical trick to reduce the collinearity and although centring variables could be helpful sometimes to ease interpretation, it does not alter anything statistically or substantively.
Best wishes,
Johan Hellstrom
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