Now 70, Mirren also talked about her sexualized image from a young age, calling it “incredibly irritating at times”.
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Mirren, who’s a spokeswoman for L’Oréal Paris’ ideal skincare and Excellence hair color line, also said she has learned to be more self assured through age.
“I think marrying late is a very good idea – it worked out for me”, she says. We need them in our lives.
“This is happening in our name and what I’m so proud about the movie – about Gavin’s way of approaching the subject – is it’s so nuanced; that the morality in that story, any one of us would sit here going: ‘I don’t know.
But when I see girls being leaned on, I want to say, ‘Tell him to get his damned arm off your shoulder”. Although she stated that, “when you’re young, you want a guy to take your hand and look after you”, she stresses the fact that this gesture is demeaning in nature. “It’s like ownership”, she said. “As I get older, I don’t look as good, but I don’t give a damn”, she says. She has repeatedly spoken out on “the huge pressure on young girls to look a certain way”, and continually seeks for gender equality in the media. I’m not baking them cookies on weekends! Growing old is not for pu**ies – you’ve got to have courage.
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In demand… Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from the film Woman in Gold. “Then they were asked about their parents’ sex lives – and oh, they were horrified!” she said. “We were like fire and a dry house”, Reynolds said.
