So … what did we do?
We spent the next half hour making her look back.
“I never keep any programs.
Helen Mirren as Cleopatra.Barham/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
I have no posters of myself up in my house.
I just about keep my original working script.
And even that, I lose, or give away, or something.
Helen Mirren in ‘The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover’.Murray Close/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images
“I had a terrible cold,” she recalls of the performance.
“I felt awful and learned you have to go on.”
I can be very self-critical.
Helen Mirren in ‘Prime Suspect’.Everett Collection
I don’t like looking at myself, and the downside of fame is having to read about yourself.
I don’t like criticsit seems like a weird thing to sit back and criticize what people are doing.
Their job in life is to be critical, and I think that’s horrible.
Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren in ‘The Madness of King George’.Everett Collection
[laughs] I was terrible.
“It was very low-budget.
We had all this incredible food on set, which we were not allowed to eat.
Clive Owen and Helen Mirren in ‘Gosford Park’.Everett Collection
The series won her two Emmys, but Mirren doesn’t think she’ll return to Tennison anytime soon.
“I stopped because I realized I was too connected to the role,” she says.
It’ll be “Jane Tennison Gets Knocked Over by a Bus.”
Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’.Everett Collection
' I had to move on.”
“Nigel was such an extraordinary actor and a great, great guy.
“And it’s nice playing a queen because you always get great costumes.”
Helen Mirren in ‘Catherine the Great’.Hal Shinnie/HBO
And Robert goes, ‘What should we do?…
Oh, let’s shoot the dog running through everyone’s legs.’
I became a voice in the background.
Lauren Potter on ‘Glee’.GLEE, Lauren Potter
Of course it was genius, which I rather crossly had to acknowledge.”
“The British have a very conflicted relationship with the monarchy,” the actress explains.
She also pulled from her Emmy-winning performance in HBO’s 2005 miniseriesElizabeth I.
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“For an actor, it was a very fascinating journey to make.”
Dame Helen Mirren, that would be good,' " says the definitively British-accented Mirren.
“I had such a blast doing that.
Helen Mirren in ‘F9’.Universal Pictures
“I had to record myNaturelines remotely because I was filming [Shazam!
I was literally in the closet.”
It was incredible fun.”
