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Dame Helen Mirren wants to “laugh all the way to the grave”.

The British actress is famed for her roles in dramas including The Queen and has won a host of awards.

Despite her success in the dramatic sphere, the 66-year-old star would love to star in more comedies.

“I would like to do more comedy as well – that would be a great way to go in my twilight years, laughing all the way to the grave,” she said in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine.

Helen has a lot of success in recent years.

The stunning star hopes to take some time out to indulge and relax at home with her husband Taylor Hackford.

“I haven’t had a real break for as long as I can remember,” she said.

“That’s what I want to do to reset myself: I will garden. My husband and I are just finishing a house in Italy, and I hope to spend time there.

“I love painting too, and want to make some horrible clothes for myself!”

Source: Stuff.co.nz

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Dame Helen Mirren keeps her Oscar in England because “America has plenty of them”.

The star is paving the way for European actors in a US-dominated Hollywood. Helen’s best actress award for The Queen remains in her homeland – where she says it belongs.

“In England, of course,” she quipped when asked where she keeps her award. “America has plenty of them!”

Helen has starred in a range of movies during her career, but has also enjoyed success on the stage. The 66-year-old star says she learnt to appreciate patience for “important” roles through her theatre work.

“If you keep working as an actress for 40 and 50 years you realise that everything becomes easier. Due to the lack of roles, many actors become impatient and give up. What really saved me was the theatre to which I return to at least every four years,” she explained in an interview with Italian magazine Flair.

“The public has the chance to appreciate you in a different way. We are continually reinventing ourselves on the stage. There is no room for stereotypes.”

Helen is widely considered one of the most stunning women in the industry. She regularly features in the best dressed and most beautiful polls, but insists she doesn’t care for such accolades.

“I’m flattered by such opinion but I do not pay much attention to it. You can lose the position very quicly,” she said.

“The problem with the cinema? There’s no way to hide wrinkles!”

Source: Musicrooms.net

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+70 MQ photos from ‘The Debt’ screening that took place in New York City yesterday have been added to the gallery.

As you can see for yourselves from the pictures, Ms. Mirren looked absolutely stunning in red and as gracious as ever.

Public Appearances – 2011 – ‘The Debt’ New York Screening (x73)

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Dame Helen Mirren often gets her style “horribly wrong”.

The British actress is famed for elegant beauty and chic wardrobe choices. Despite being praised for her effortlessly stunning look, the 66-year-old star shies away from fussy fashion because she’s likely to mess it up “horribly”.

“Keep it clean – keep the lines clean. I don’t have an impeccable sense of style. I often get it horribly wrong,” she admitted in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine.

“But when you look at people who know what they’re doing, it’s often very clean with one very amazing thing.”

Helen loves acting because it gives her an excuse to wear finery from time to time. The Oscar-winning star insists her make-up artists, hair experts, and wardrobe stylists are the reason behind her impressive red-carpet look.

“Oh, that’s the fun of my job, dressing up. That does half of the work for you,” she smiled.

Source: Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Dame Helen Mirren insists she is a “great advice giver”.

The British actress often hands out wise words to her family and friends. Even though her loved one appreciate it, the 66-year-old sometimes prefers not to get involved.

“I am a great advice giver! Well I think I am, and the people who confide in me usually say it is great advice,” she told Good Housekeeping magazine.

“Sometimes people are in a pickle and there’s nothing you can say. Life is kind of random and accidental, and advice is not the easiest thing to give – you might as well just throw a coin.”

Helen always tries to remain positive about what life throws at her.

The Oscar winning beauty says not every decision she makes can be the right one.

“Follow your instinct and have an optimistic point of view,” she mused when asked what her philosophy in life is. “You learn that later in life.

“It’s a hard thing to do, because sometimes your instinct is totally wrong. Some professional decisions you make can be flawed. But you make so many – three or four every year. You can’t go through a career without making them. Inevitably, you make a few mistakes.”

Source: Musicrooms.net

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The Middle East drama will be filmed in the spring 2012.

TORONTO — The Helen Mirren-starring Middle East drama Deadlocked from Brit indie producer Andy Harries and Canadian partner Rob Heydon is on.

Harries’ Left Bank Pictures has pacted with Heydon’s Ecstasy Pictures to shoot the $10 million theatrical feature as a Canadian-British co-production in spring 2012.

Mirren, who worked with Harries on The Queen and Prime Suspect 7, has been attached to the project since it was first developed out of BBC Films four years ago.

Philip Martin is to direct Deadlocked, which sees Mirren play a secular Jewish British doctor who investigates the sudden death of her young daughter, a freelance TV journalist, in the streets of Gaza City, only to discover a secret life her daughter led.

The film has backing from BBC Films and Lionsgate UK.

Ecstasy Pictures on board as a co-producer allows Deadlocked to tap Canadian tax credits by shooting some interiors in Canada, posting the picture here and sending a Canadian crew to the Middle East to help shoot the picture.

As long as a film is a certified co-production, Canadian rules allow up to 25% of the total budget spent in a third country to be eligible for tax rebates.

The producers earlier scouted Jordan as a location for the Deadlocked shoot, but shelved those plans when civil unrest broke out there in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Heydon’s $5 million Ecstasy, the film based on Irvine Welsh‘s follow up novel to Trainspotting and starring Kristin Kreuk and Billy Boyd, is expected to have its world premiere at the London Film Festival in October.

A four-minute short from Ecstasy was shopped to buyers at Cannes.

London will give the film’s international sales agent, Intandem Films, its first chance to shop the finished product.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Dame Helen Mirren thinks it is “horrific” when young people have cosmetic surgery.

The 66-year-old actress can’t understand why younger women are willing to go under the knife to ruin the “purity” of their natural beauty.

She told America’s InStyle magazine: “The only thing I don’t like on young people is plastic surgery.

“The purity of youthful beauty is so fantastic to me that it’s horrific when young girls get fake things.”

The British actress has previously defended women for undergoing cosmetic surgery, admitting she can understand why people want to change their appearance.

She has said: “You go, ‘I don’t want to look at that face anymore,’ and I understand that, absolutely.

“I think people should be allowed to do whatever they want to make themselves feel happy.”

The ‘Arthur’ star has also claimed in the past that while she still feels sexy, she doesn’t think she has ever been beautiful.

She said: “I’m not beautiful. I was never beautiful. I just clean up nice! Sexiness is different. I don’t mind being sexy – but on my own terms. I’ve always felt very comfortable about my sexuality.

“Women don’t lose their sex appeal as they get older, it just moves into a different kind of arena. I don’t mean full-on sex appeal – that’s really for the young. No, it’s some kind of indeterminate thing – an appreciation of life and wisdom and other things, perhaps. There should be a special word for it.”

Source: CTV News

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