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Eldergays, tell me about Helen Mirren

I only know her as an old woMan. I had no idea she was a star and so beautiful while young.

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by Anonymousreply 107July 23, 2020 11:42 AM

Hi, postimg troll.

by Anonymousreply 1February 13, 2020 7:01 PM

She would have been great in Dangerous Liaisons

by Anonymousreply 2February 13, 2020 7:03 PM

She doesn't look beautiful in the OP pic. She was never a great beauty. She was actually more attractive in middle age and beyond. She was attractive enough to play the parts she played but compare her to someone like Ursual Andress in the 1960s. There's no competition.

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by Anonymousreply 3February 13, 2020 7:04 PM

Quite big tits.

by Anonymousreply 4February 13, 2020 7:06 PM

Two big reasons she sustained a career

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by Anonymousreply 5February 13, 2020 7:07 PM

She had glamour, but she was suspiciously... ethnic looking.

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by Anonymousreply 6February 13, 2020 7:08 PM

Pretty.

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by Anonymousreply 7February 13, 2020 7:10 PM

She never made it big til Jane Tennyson.

by Anonymousreply 8February 13, 2020 7:25 PM

She was pretty, had an incredible body, and had the unfortunate distinction of starring in Bob Guccione's "Caligula"

by Anonymousreply 9February 13, 2020 8:30 PM

I never thought she was beautiful although I guess she could be called "sexy." I have no idea why she (and other respectable actors) took a role in "Caligula" , that execrable porn film. She achieved success late in her career with "Prime Suspect" and eventually won an Oscar. She's married to Taylor Hackford, the director. She never had children. She

by Anonymousreply 10February 13, 2020 8:56 PM

After viewing "Caligula," Ian McKellen told her: "Darling, I could see your arsehole!"

So yes: one has to love Dame Helen.

by Anonymousreply 11February 13, 2020 9:16 PM

I think she's fabulous (totally unironically). I also think she's hotter at this age than when she was in her 20s-30s.

by Anonymousreply 12February 13, 2020 9:22 PM

Jane Tennyson OWNED the world, but Mirren also did some great arthouse flicks, like The Comfort of Strangers (1990). Harold Pinter did the screenplay (showqueens!), Paul Schrader directed (American Gigolo! Cat People!), co-starred Rupert Everett (homo!), Christopher Walken (cray!), Natasha Richardson (gorge!).

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by Anonymousreply 13February 13, 2020 9:24 PM

Caligula was fabulous. I’m grateful for every one of those great actors for taking it on and creating an iconic remembrance of the 70s. It could never have been made before or since. I think it’s a masterpiece and one of the most impressive, important films of the 20th century. And I’m being completely serious.

by Anonymousreply 14February 13, 2020 9:30 PM

She was always ready to take her kit off. A trouper.

by Anonymousreply 15February 13, 2020 9:36 PM

"After viewing "Caligula," Ian McKellen told her: "Darling, I could see your arsehole!"

Actually I heard it was John Gielgud who uttered that immortal line. He supposedly said "Helen! I can see your asshole!" So funny. And so true.

by Anonymousreply 16February 13, 2020 9:43 PM

"Caligula was fabulous. I’m grateful for every one of those great actors for taking it on and creating an iconic remembrance of the 70s. It could never have been made before or since. I think it’s a masterpiece and one of the most impressive, important films of the 20th century. And I’m being completely serious."

You're also seriously nuts. The movie was universally panned as garbage. Gore Vidal was so embarrassed by it he wanted his name taken off the credits (he wrote the original screenplay, which the movie is "based on." Here's more about how awful it was:

Caligula received generally negative reviews.[46] Roger Ebert gave it zero stars, calling it "sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash". Ebert wrote, "In the two hours of this film that I saw, there were no scenes of joy, natural pleasure, or good sensual cheer. There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies." It is also notable for being one of the few films Ebert ever walked out of—he walked out 2 hours into its 170-minute length after feeling "disgusted and unspeakably depressed". He and Gene Siskel selected the film as one of their "dogs of the year" in a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews. Variety described the film as a "moral holocaust". Rex Reed called Caligula "a trough of rotten swill". Jay Scott, reviewing Caligula for The Globe and Mail, said, "Caligula doesn't really work on any level". Scott unfavourably compared Caligula with In the Realm of the Senses, describing the latter film as a better treatment of extreme sexuality. Scott's review went on to say "Rome would seem to be at least as fecund a territory for the cinematic exploration of sex, death and money, as pre-war Japan ... but what's missing from Caligula, which is rife with all three, is any connective tissue (also any point of view, any thought, any meaning)". Scott concluded his review by claiming the whole film's production was "a boondoggle of landmark proportions". New York critic David Denby described the film as "an infinitely degraded version of Fellini Satyricon. Tom Milne (Monthly Film Bulletin) stated that the film was "by no means so awesomely bad as most critics have been pleased to report—but pretty bad all the same" and found the film to be "notable chiefly for the accuracy with which it reflects this anonymity."

by Anonymousreply 17February 13, 2020 9:51 PM

Helen Mirren & Jenny Agutter were favorites because they took their shirts off all the time. Female toplessness was very new back then. Helen & Jenny wisely decided when young, pretty & buxom, to take advantage of their firm, winsome breasts. It paid off.

by Anonymousreply 18February 13, 2020 9:56 PM

Helen is bit more than a set of tits. She's a wonderful actress who has appeared in many RSC productions, on London's West End and Broadway. In works by Shakespeare, Strindberg, Arthur Miller, David Hare, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. She's a far more nuanced and creative artist than Ms. Streep. If Mirren had done nothing more than create Jane Tennison she has still given the most fully realized portrayal of a female character, ever on TV. Rewatch the Prime Suspects. Mirren is Magnificent.

She's gave quietly beautiful performances in The Queen and Gosford Park, The Madness of King George. She was fascinating in Mamet's Phil Spector. Yes she has been luminously sexual. She's also a GREAT actress.

by Anonymousreply 19February 13, 2020 10:28 PM

Before she was in her 50's, she was known primarily as the woman who would go topless. Not necessarily any huge talent. That all changed later in life where she became respected.

Funny how it turned out for her. Nobody would have predicted this success.

by Anonymousreply 20February 13, 2020 10:31 PM

Who gives a fuck about this bitch?

by Anonymousreply 21February 13, 2020 11:55 PM

R21 = Patsy Kensit

by Anonymousreply 22February 14, 2020 1:35 AM

[quote]Before she was in her 50's, she was known primarily as the woman who would go topless. Not necessarily any huge talent. That all changed later in life where she became respected. Funny how it turned out for her. Nobody would have predicted this success.

So basically, she was the British version of me, am I right?

by Anonymousreply 23February 14, 2020 2:26 AM

I'd go more than topless, fellas.

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by Anonymousreply 24February 14, 2020 2:31 AM

I remember she made some bitter quote about Susan George when she was young. I can’t remember what.

by Anonymousreply 25February 14, 2020 2:37 AM

How terrifying to see an unmanicured, unwaxed, and un-CrossFit adult woman's body, R24.

Thank god actresses don't look like that anymore!

by Anonymousreply 26February 14, 2020 2:38 AM

[Quote] 'I was lucky I was never the sexy, happening actress,' she reflects on her early career. 'I wasn't Susan George or Judy Geeson. I was struggling at the RSC, wanting to be them. But at the same time, I was obsessed by becoming a great classical actress.'

by Anonymousreply 27February 14, 2020 2:41 AM

Yes, back in the day all young actresses were deeply unattractive, OP.

by Anonymousreply 28February 14, 2020 2:41 AM

Early in her career she criticized Hollywood films like Terms Of Endearment as being too emotionally manipulative and schmaltzy.

Then she went off and married Taylor Hackford.

by Anonymousreply 29February 14, 2020 2:42 AM

She had a small role in "O Lucky Man" as the girlfriend of Alan Price.

by Anonymousreply 30February 14, 2020 2:53 AM

She looked great in Excalibur also. Wish she’d been on more.

by Anonymousreply 31February 14, 2020 3:35 AM

I'm not going to post a link to the 1971 production of Balzac's "Cousin Bette"; however, it co-stars a rather young Helen Mirren who bears no resemblance whatsoever to Jane Tennyson. The series is available at YouTube if you're interested, and well worth it for data loungers who enjoy cray-cray b itches running wild.

by Anonymousreply 32February 14, 2020 3:52 AM

This woman wasn’t taking shit from anyone.

Ever.

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by Anonymousreply 33February 14, 2020 4:05 AM

The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover.

Sublime

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by Anonymousreply 34February 14, 2020 4:07 AM

Bye, R21!

by Anonymousreply 35February 14, 2020 7:27 AM

Since she played Queen Elizabeth, you can get a pretty good idea from looking at Helen what the Queen looks like topless.

by Anonymousreply 36February 14, 2020 7:41 AM

To me she looks like an Eastern European potato but she was sexy and had great tits and could act a bit.

by Anonymousreply 37February 14, 2020 7:57 AM

She was so Russian looking when she was younger I'm surprised she didn't speak with an accent

by Anonymousreply 38February 18, 2020 9:46 PM

R17 so, better than “Cats” then?

by Anonymousreply 39February 18, 2020 10:00 PM

In a recent Helen Mirren Imgur post many straight guys in their 30s said they'd totally bang her even now. One guy said his wise teases him for lusting after a granny.

by Anonymousreply 40February 18, 2020 10:16 PM

Big tits open doors...

by Anonymousreply 41February 18, 2020 10:18 PM

She lives in a Castle near my house in Lecce, Puglia, Italy.

I see her and Taylor around town all of the time.

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by Anonymousreply 42February 18, 2020 10:32 PM

She is English and married to Oscar winner Taylor Hackford.

by Anonymousreply 43February 18, 2020 10:35 PM

I've loved her in so many things that she's done; Saw her today in a current picture and my first reaction was "Wow. She got old." But then I realized that she hasn't had a stitch of work done. Just started watching Prime Suspect on Amazon last week and she is fucking awesome. I'm at the end of Season 3. I think the reason that I like her so much is that she relies on her talent and not on plastic surgery. She's 74. Younger straight men adore her for her unabashed sexuality. Gay men love her for her talent and her liberalism. What's not to like?

by Anonymousreply 44February 18, 2020 10:53 PM

She has had work done, just not too much

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by Anonymousreply 45February 18, 2020 11:02 PM

She was marvelous in the XXX version of "Caligula", back in her day.

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by Anonymousreply 46February 18, 2020 11:08 PM

I'd seen her in several movies: Excalibur, White Nights, Cal, the Long Good Friday*, the Madness of King George, etc. But she didn't really make an impression on me until Prime Suspect, which is one of the best series I've seen, certainly one of the best ever with a female as the main character. Now I love her and her movies.

* The Long Good Friday is worth watching. It's a 70s English gangster movie that introduced Bob Hoskins to the U.S. Some of the technique is dated, but it was well regarded when it came out. And it includes an openly gay man as an significant character. His homosexuality is used against him by other bad guys, but it doesn't seem to be of any importance to his mates and colleagues.

by Anonymousreply 47February 18, 2020 11:43 PM

Mirren didn't do the sex scenes in Caligula. the tits are hers but not the cunnilingus. Caligula is two movies stitched together, a b movie with hardcore porn slappedon after the fact. she is great in most things including the thief,but that movie is owned Michael Gambon.

by Anonymousreply 48February 19, 2020 12:15 AM

R38 She is Russian on her father's side. She wasn't born there but her father was. Her original last name is Mironoff. The family was apparently aristocratic. Her paternal grandfather was a diplomat negotiating an arms deal in Britain(seems like his family including her young father was with him) when the Russian Revolution broke out, he ended up becoming a cab driver.

by Anonymousreply 49February 19, 2020 1:50 AM

She once said The Oscars were the creme-de-la-creme of bullshit. Her tune changed however when she became likely to win one!

She was also the writer's first choice for The French Lieutenant's Woman until Meryl happened..

by Anonymousreply 50February 19, 2020 4:25 PM

Wasn't she born in Russia?

by Anonymousreply 51February 19, 2020 4:30 PM

Yelena (or Illiana; reports differ) Mironova.

by Anonymousreply 52February 19, 2020 4:32 PM

Fuck you op.

by Anonymousreply 53February 19, 2020 4:33 PM

So you're kind of dense, right OP. Did you imagine she was born at age 60?

by Anonymousreply 54February 19, 2020 4:38 PM

I remember on Doogie Houser long ago his best friend said something about Helen Mirren always showing her breasts.

by Anonymousreply 55February 19, 2020 4:41 PM

She's made an awful mess of her career after her Oscar.

by Anonymousreply 56May 13, 2020 7:28 PM

Tits are the worst r5. I hate tits.

by Anonymousreply 57May 13, 2020 7:37 PM

"Mirren didn't do the sex scenes in Caligula. the tits are hers but not the cunnilingus."

WHAT "cunnilingus?" I remember her kissing another woman in that movie (Caligula, his wife, and his sister having a threesome) but I don't recall her doing any muff diving.

by Anonymousreply 58May 13, 2020 7:51 PM

Tits are just gross to me. I’m not a fan of lactating lassies🤮. Let’s see her scrotum instead!

by Anonymousreply 59May 13, 2020 8:04 PM

I had NO IDEA the old lady used to look like this.

Age and ageism sucks but at least she gets better roles than sexy crazy girl.

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by Anonymousreply 60May 13, 2020 8:16 PM

I have a friend who loved the Alzheimer’s movie with Donald Sutherland and the con artist movie she did. I don’t think he has good taste at all. At her age she’s lucky to be working but she does bring class to a movie just by showing up.

by Anonymousreply 61May 14, 2020 2:55 AM

She's a naturist in real life---so topless probably wasn't a stretch.. I had no idea who she was until Gosford Park.

R51 is an idiot--someone else had mentioned her father staying in England because of the Russian Revolution. She's not old enough to have been around for that.

by Anonymousreply 62May 14, 2020 3:03 AM

I was first aware of her as an upper class free spirit in Ken Russell’s best movie, “Savage Messiah” (1972).

But I believe her earliest appearance was as yet another topless free spirit in Michael Powell’s “Age of Consent” (1969).

I’m glad for her success. She deserves it.

by Anonymousreply 63May 15, 2020 4:15 PM

Why did she break up with Liam Neeson?

by Anonymousreply 64May 15, 2020 4:23 PM

[quote]She had a small role in "O Lucky Man" as the girlfriend of Alan Price.

Helen exposed her tits in that film too. Alan Price was in that awful "Alfie Darling" film. Lots of nudity in that film too. Alan was mostly known as a musician, he was the keyboardist for The Animals, Eric Burdon's old band.

IIRC, Alan had a hit record with a Randy Newman song. Alan was very sexy back in the day, one review of "Alfie Darling" compared his looks to Joe Dallesandro! Alan was being pushed as an actor but he couldn't act. This was back in the day when many rockers were acting, such as Mick Jagger in "Performance" . I think Alan also wrote the soundtrack for "Old Lucky Man". Malcolm McDowell was the main star of the film. Think Helen was actually Malcolm's GF in that film.

by Anonymousreply 65May 15, 2020 4:45 PM

She seemed to enjoy taking her baps out.

by Anonymousreply 66May 15, 2020 4:47 PM

R62 - Her GRANDFATHER was in England with his family at the time of the revolution. Her grandfather did not return to Russia with his family. They all stayed in England.

by Anonymousreply 67May 15, 2020 4:58 PM

R63 she showed the full Monty in Savage Messiah - tits, ass and fanny!

by Anonymousreply 68May 15, 2020 5:31 PM

The Mirren Minge has made almost as many film appearances than she's had cocks in it!

by Anonymousreply 69May 15, 2020 5:34 PM

Helen actually didn't have a small role in Oh Lucky Man, she was one of the main stars, along with Malcolm McDowell, she played his girlfriend. Alan Price basically played himself in the film. If you can track down this film, I highly recommend it.

I wish IFC and Sundance still aired these forgotten art house films, which they did in the past. These days, it's marathons of old TV series, such as 'The Andy Griffith Show', which you can find on many other nostalgia channels. Why Sundance and IFC no longer air European art films is baffling. I remember when they aired a different classic Kurosawa samurai film every Saturday morning. I'd even settle for a Godzilla marathon over Andy Griffith!

IMDb synopsis: "Follows the literal and associated life journey of middle class Brit Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), representing the "everyman", as he tries to make his mark in his so far young life. He is able to make great strides in his traditional view of success by being what those in authority want him to be. As such, he achieves in a few weeks what it usually take years for others, namely having his own sales territory, the northeast and ultimately Scotland, for Imperial Coffee. He is also able to garner a plethora of fringe benefits from this job, including women throwing themselves at his feet. But he will ultimately face a struggle in class and authority warfare, which culminates with his encounter with the Burgess family, wealthy industrialist Sir James Burgess (Sir Ralph Richardson) and his daughter Patricia (Dame Helen Mirren), who Mick wants to marry, the former who is contemplating investing in the shady dealings in Zingara."

by Anonymousreply 70May 15, 2020 5:40 PM

Helen actually didn't have a small role in Oh Lucky Man, she was one of the main stars, along with Malcolm McDowell, she played his girlfriend. Alan Price basically played himself in the film. If you can track down this film, I highly recommend it.

I wish IFC and Sundance still aired these forgotten art house films, which they did in the past. These days, it's marathons of old TV series, such as 'The Andy Griffith Show', which you can find on many other nostalgia channels. Why Sundance and IFC no longer air European art films is baffling. I remember when they aired a different classic Kurosawa samurai film every Saturday morning. I'd even settle for a Godzilla marathon over Andy Griffith!

IMDb synopsis: "Follows the literal and associated life journey of middle class Brit Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), representing the "everyman", as he tries to make his mark in his so far young life. He is able to make great strides in his traditional view of success by being what those in authority want him to be. As such, he achieves in a few weeks what it usually take years for others, namely having his own sales territory, the northeast and ultimately Scotland, for Imperial Coffee. He is also able to garner a plethora of fringe benefits from this job, including women throwing themselves at his feet. But he will ultimately face a struggle in class and authority warfare, which culminates with his encounter with the Burgess family, wealthy industrialist Sir James Burgess (Sir Ralph Richardson) and his daughter Patricia (Dame Helen Mirren), who Mick wants to marry, the former who is contemplating investing in the shady dealings in Zingara."

by Anonymousreply 71May 15, 2020 5:40 PM

She apparently almost walked off "The Queen" as she clashed with Director Peter Morgan who tried to reign in her attempts to sex up Her Majesty.

Allegedly Helen wanted to add a scene where she showed off the "Crown Jewels" in a tasteful bathtub scene (to show that underneath the burden of monarchy and tradition Queen Liz was still a sensual woman)!

Filthy bugger!

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by Anonymousreply 72May 15, 2020 5:53 PM

Fiona Lewis was originally cast in “O Lucky Man!” but was replaced by Helen Mirren.

by Anonymousreply 73May 16, 2020 1:59 AM

Okay okay, it's been years since I saw O Lucky Man. Actually saw it as a part of a triple bill, This Sporting Life, If, and O Lucky Man with Lindsey Anderson taking questions afterwards. I just remember Helen Mirren going off with Alan Price and his group in the morning. Bought his soundtrack and his next album as well. Handsome guy, still playing I think.

by Anonymousreply 74May 16, 2020 3:27 AM

Two words: Bad Bitch.

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by Anonymousreply 75May 16, 2020 3:31 AM

[quote]She is English and [italic]married to Oscar winner Taylor Hackford.[/italic]

I'll try not to hold that against her.

by Anonymousreply 76May 16, 2020 3:46 AM

"Fiona Lewis was originally cast in “O Lucky Man!” but was replaced by Helen Mirren."

Fiona Lewis....there ought to be a thread about her. She was a grade B (or maybe C or D) actress, but she really got around. She got into movies with the help of Roman Polanski (she was fucking him) and got a part in "The Fearless Vampire Killers." In most of her movies, she, like Sharon Tate, was simply eye candy. She also, like Helen MIrren, had a tendency to be nude a lot. She's an amusing writer but seems like kind of a dimwit. Her memoir "Mistakes Were Made, Some In French" recounts her wild life in London during the sixties and in Hollywood during the seventies. It also tells of how although she was living a well off, privileged life (married to a rich Hollywood producer, friends with stars like Robert De Niro) she embarked upon a "journey to self-acceptance as she restores a crumbling French chateau." WTF? Like I said, she seems like kind of a dimwit. By the way, her once delicately beautiful face has been totally obliterated by plastic surgery.

by Anonymousreply 77May 16, 2020 4:05 AM

Fiona Lewis I knew she was in a movie that made a strong impression on me (loved the book hated the movie) the Fury

Helen started making an impression with that gangster movie she when she is last seen riding in a car and not knowing her outcome, the Peter Greenaway movie and The Madness of King George long before Jane. She is very good at projecting warmth.

by Anonymousreply 78May 16, 2020 5:27 AM

The Madness of King George (first Oscar nomination) came out in 1994. Prime Suspect started in 1991.

by Anonymousreply 79May 16, 2020 1:03 PM

I'd never heard of Fiona Lewis so I checked out her blog. It's well-written and amusing, her house/maison de maitre is gorgeous, and she doesn't appear to have "obliterated her face with plastic surgery ". I'm going to read her book.

by Anonymousreply 80May 16, 2020 2:05 PM

Did she do any porn? Caligula?

by Anonymousreply 81May 16, 2020 3:24 PM

" It's well-written and amusing, her house/maison de maitre is gorgeous, and she doesn't appear to have "obliterated her face with plastic surgery ".

Oh, come on. Her face is unrecognizable from the way it was before. Looking at earlier photos of her you wouldn't know it was the same person. The fake blonde hair (she was a natural brunette) doesn't help, either.

by Anonymousreply 82May 16, 2020 9:51 PM

"Oh, come on. Her face is unrecognizable from the way it was before. Looking at earlier photos of her you wouldn't know it was the same person. "

You can very well recognize her. She has had surgery but didn't go crazy.

by Anonymousreply 83May 16, 2020 10:02 PM

"You can very well recognize her."

Comparing photos of her "before" with photos of her "after" it's evident that her face is entirely changed. She looks like she's had tons of work done.

by Anonymousreply 84May 16, 2020 11:52 PM

Great rack. Great legs. Great actress. Prime suspect is my favorite detective series

by Anonymousreply 85May 17, 2020 12:18 AM

Helen would have been great in "Away From Her" if it was filmed now.

She really should have found a great TV show like "Damages" in the early 2010s to keep her career moving forward instead of appearing in so much rubbish.

Still love her though and think she would have been terrific in "Dangerous Liasions" and "Fatal Attraction" if we didn't have Glenn. Hope she still gets some more good opportunities to challenge herself.

Aside, I met her briefly in 2013 outside the theatre when she was performing "The Audience" and she was lovely. And tipsy!

by Anonymousreply 86May 19, 2020 9:00 PM

One of the greatest natural racks the screen has ever known (and not a bad actress, either).

by Anonymousreply 87May 19, 2020 9:20 PM

Russki Commie cunt. Gets naked constantly. Fucked her way to every role including "The Queen".

by Anonymousreply 88May 19, 2020 10:02 PM

R86 I doubt she'd have done a US based TV show, she's lived largely between London and Italy for years.

by Anonymousreply 89May 19, 2020 10:17 PM

Just watched her in Ken Russell’s “Savage Messiah”, which I’d never seen. She was very fetching indeed — and had a lengthy nude scene.

by Anonymousreply 90May 21, 2020 11:43 AM

I like her very much but cannot remember anything decent she has done in the last years.

Her comments on Terms of Endearment areal,true, r29.

by Anonymousreply 91May 21, 2020 8:17 PM

She was pretty good in Trumbo (2015)

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by Anonymousreply 92May 21, 2020 9:53 PM

She played Hopper as "Karen of Hollywood". She was great.

by Anonymousreply 93May 21, 2020 10:01 PM

She always showed her Boobies Boobies Boobies, as John Gielgud said.

by Anonymousreply 94May 21, 2020 10:05 PM

[quote] But then I realized that she hasn't had a stitch of work done

She’s had loads of work done. It’s why she’s better looking now than when she was younger. Her face was rough looking and didn’t seem to flow back then. Now it flows. She’s definitely had a facelift, probably in her 40s. She’d have been insane not to have had one. When you’re 45 years old you’ve only got a few more years of tit work. A facelift cleans your face up at that point.

Problem with you queens is you’ve never had the money to have work done by excellent surgeons, so you look at some lunatic who’s plumped their lips to the size of an inner tube & and stuffed their cheeks with implants until they look like Picasso portraits and you say “Ugh! Plastic surgery is so awful!”

Plastic surgeons to the stars don’t advertise themselves as plastic surgeons to the stars. They don’t need to because they’re booked months in advance. They don’t make you look like you’ve had plastic surgery. They make you look like you, only better.

by Anonymousreply 95May 21, 2020 10:32 PM

I think she's overrated as an actress. I find her very gimmicky and actressy in her performances. Even her Oscar winning role in "The Queen" received a lot of undeserved acclaim just because she played that old bitch Lillibet.

by Anonymousreply 96May 22, 2020 6:14 AM

This thread appears in my sidebar as "Eldergays, tell me about Helen...." I was so disappointed to click and find out it's about Mirren, not Lawson.

by Anonymousreply 97May 22, 2020 1:20 PM

r75 Hard pass. Too Mollie Sugden by half.

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by Anonymousreply 98May 22, 2020 1:43 PM

R91 - I loved her in RED (2010) and RED2 (2013.

Helen can play high camp very well.

by Anonymousreply 99May 22, 2020 1:55 PM

Helen sold out when she got a whiff of Hollywood success. Started doing lots of commercial shite like Collateral Beauty, Fast/Furious and their ilk.

by Anonymousreply 100May 22, 2020 4:36 PM

Elizabeth II was so impressed by Mirren's performance in The Queen that she invited her to luncheon. This is usually the sort of invitation that is never declined but Mirren was on set filming in Asia and the producers could not afford to shut down production for two days her to fly to England and back. She had to write a respectful note declining with much regret.

When she got back to England, Her Majesty invited her to tea and the two allegedly got along famously.

by Anonymousreply 101May 22, 2020 5:11 PM

HM was likely more impressed with the respectful and positive approach the movie took to her

by Anonymousreply 102May 22, 2020 5:49 PM

R98 You can never be too Mollie Sugden

by Anonymousreply 103May 22, 2020 7:44 PM

Fine work (as usual) in “The Good Liar”.

by Anonymousreply 104May 24, 2020 8:09 PM

I always thought Helen was related to the late British rocker, Kevin Ayers. They had the same nose, same eye shape, same face shape and even the same hair color and hairstyle. Especially in that clip upthread with Helen in the magenta cape.

Kevin was the lead singer in the 1960s band Soft Machine, he left and had an interesting solo career. He's one of those musicians who famous musicians cite as a major influence. Kevin also worked with Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett. Andy Summers from The Police was also in the line up of one of Kevin's bands.

Helen and Kevin eerily resemble each other. I still wonder if there is some family connection.

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by Anonymousreply 105July 23, 2020 10:25 AM

Helen has the shittiest taste in movies.

by Anonymousreply 106July 23, 2020 10:29 AM

She’s really lucky she did The Queen otherwise she’d have remained in England doing police tv shows. R33 I believe Michael called her sluttishly erotic in that earlier interview lol.

by Anonymousreply 107July 23, 2020 11:42 AM
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