thank you
icons I think it yeah me too hopefully I mean I'll just chillin with further
questions he thought I would think about preparing tonight we've heard of it in
terms of pine talk of peak times talk and you don't get much better than an
hour at the people apparently so foolish and stupid they had they would do you
know and you deal he gets paid and we pride ourselves sitting here it was a
clever ploy by the people of total to pretend to be as mad as gates because he
didn't want to pay their taxes
completely dual alleyway King John wouldn't come down with all his you know
his army upon them and and claim taxes so that's ahead goes to start with
Batman but no Washington berlin founder name and and used it in a terrible piece
of writing another question and people who the BAFTA co-sponsored events people
might also know that in 2002 but you became a Dane Dane
here I think of dame Edna and then I think gains from guys and dolls but
that's not it at all its oil paintings hanging
nothing to do with royalty or anything like that it's like your career
Congressional Medal of Honor it in your country just need join world you know
keep it up sort of thing that I read your book thing I really wish to London
parity because you know your family backgrounds working class and the other
side but on the other side
your grandfather with part of the largest army he was in russia and just
hoping to be in Britain when you live illusion happened you talking with one
other thing to do by the door to make an arms deal with the British government
because the russians he just bought the Russian Japanese war and he found
realized that they were incredibly under our new armaments
at that time Britain and England Britain Russia had a very close relationship in
this area was the one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters I think there
was a close relationship so my grandfather along with another
person was sent you an arms deal with the British government deadline real
Russia 16 yeah just before the Russian Federation it took longer than he
thought it was going to take him he brought his wife and his young father
who was 21 born in russia and he brought his wife and young son over and
basically you know they had been regulations before the major Bolshevik
Revolution which is always being crossed troubled away to nothing like being
around the military was convinced that the nation would never hold so he
thought six months you know of course and he could never do about six in
russia and his mother and he saw them again and it saved his life and many
others and she was going to extraordinary I was kidding my great
harm to Mike Wallace system whilst I thought destroyed because they were just
perfect candidates they were intellectuals middle-class they had a
relatively abroad
attacking me they would just play candidates but they state
huge difficulty and your grandfather when the taxi driver in your father
became a taxi driver told us why so many immigrants during my grandfather student
directory and in Britain was sort of like this he started off living in great
comfort in the russian embassy in London which was very very glamorous than you
know and then of course because it was no more relationship and he had no way
of making money
speak English due to his credit he never paid the money that was all put in the
bank and it had the gentleman to access it they would be only signatures to a
very very large sum of money to pay phones and he misused to steal the money
would you use that would have been of his
joined the Communist Party in British London history just because the Second
World War when also closely with me
London passages leader along with russia's parties I'm sure you know there
was quite a strong fascist movement in in europe and in London before the
second world war and then there was a great movement against it as well
fight against people fighting against us take a left wing so there was a famous
smart and his fascist Blackshirts took through the east end of london because
he's going to London at that time was where the Jewish community immigrant
jewish community community was based in London so the flashes were delivered in
walking part of London to show their aggression and violence and my father
and it became known as the battle of Cable Street because the left wing
social right up again and went to my father was one of those people in Battle
of Cape a product that and you can I was wondering you know the idea of having
played the Queen you started happening and UK attitude for the keep clean when
you were younger but that really shifted the more you got to know
think about my mother was never as left-wingers Portugal's my father was an
issue with an east-end working-class woman from London London family so she
wasn't actually the vegetarians riverhead years ahead of horrified but I
really hope
way thank you what happened understanding with a terrible moment for
a lot of the people who believe in Hindi you can pin your idealism of communism
it's a beautiful idea and of course the reality was the realization of the loss
of that dream a lot of that utopian ideas of how beautiful the world could
be I think was a very painful my father's generation but I was brought up
in I'm getting that run to the Queen I was brought up in a very anti monarchist
my mom and my dad really really thought it was rubbish you know the monarchy and
point
you playing the Queen and making me forcing myself to enter into who this
person is in really controlling isolation of watching the way in which I
found a huge growing in me and i actually became a lot of our beloved I i
still filled out you know
well with you you know I mean I think we will all the products and parents and I
was the product of two of two people both really believed in winning
independent and we believe that we should not just women but as people you
know they grew up in a used when they were young
in London it was a depression date again and went to second world war and when
the patient safety or so they say twenty years it's ok you and twenty to forty
was very very difficult when you really need to change depending which are
important and they wanted my sister teaches and I did actually trained as a
teacher became a teacher knows our wonderful teacher but that was not what
I and II did you were you were being knowing that you wanted to act of a
fuzzy origin story of sorts for you
not have analyzed cost you a good combination I was playing the Virgin
Mary
actually populist you know that sort of place and we had to appear longer
sparing the world court along and south end here and at the end of the year when
I was growing up literally had shoes at the end you know some issues like page
to show and it was a variety store to share with the community and and a
comedian was very funny and I fell off my seat I remember laughing and dancing
girls game
and again had been Katie things on and I just she was mesmerised I thought it was
just the most beautiful wonderful thing I've ever seen in my life and I guess
when I was about to jump or took me to an amateur production of hundred when I
was about 12 13 and it's the perfect age to see hamlet never having seen you know
that hundreds die or new story watching him in the end it as much as anything
production I just was absolutely transported to reach in leading world is
just incredible part tree we understand the world of high school of grass that
was something fantastic and it's shakespeare who went ham and we had this
one of those huge box of shakespeare you know and if you had one of those but
when the Prince like this more complete works of Shakespeare and I went to that
book and I just started looking through reading using characters an amazing
scene
and a teacher a champion of you wait for me yes which was really launched me
because I didn't I went to college but there was his organization can afford
just financially impossible being you know sort of battle in the house trip to
get to allow you to go I auditioned secretly but once I got in in something
you did in the summer holidays he didn't cost them anything it didn't cost me
anything in terms of my education so it was fine that was absolutely fine and it
was actually what I was very lucky I like it we have is a lovely couple
compilation through it now that the Dolphins put together last night of your
career
alluring to keep his memory alive
because people forget you see especially the young
the other way
I'm surrounded by
of course but times change
the Queen and then he went on in that bank before concluding I know I'm on the
edge of creepiness here and you know something that day beginning you know
how do you feel about your pic the cali the infamous nineteen coming to
television interview where you are in front of the camera to you how he
serious popular with that he would just stare directly at your breath and
complete something like okay because bob deniro she called me I would never I did
but coming from him just feel different now because you know you're not as
pretty as not a vacation having played upon as jack-booted who actually good at
a time when you comin 252 you question it had no I i meeting you huge
difference between someone being funny in presentation and someone being
interviewed I think this is and I get it done in my life and it was very much of
it
as well you know I wasn't surprising to it it's become the time nobody thought
twice about it i did i do you know I'm a little confused why when I look at it
now and you can I was amazed how I handled it extremely well with them and
grace grace interview never lived it down a long time coming and you really
do your magic bullet may need to what happened in this case
well indication I'm and I did I was appearing on Saturday Night Live and it
was one of the girls I did so many female is a female and it saturday night
live it feeling confused upset tired or depressed about it they cannot imagine
how can I know you can and they can bury their heads in my boys that might be a
great thank you so much
made headlines here Helen Mirren to casual no longer do nudity i mean you
know which is true and you would like to come back and bite you if you do but you
know hopefully never been in that way of all perhaps nuclear language everything
pivoted was
but you wouldn't you'd give you helpful but not until the age of 45 at this true
story like a story I hear you I wouldn't you you know when I think 23 difficult
time for people in general the world and you do come crashing down upon you may
need to apply for driving licence car insurance and pay no electricity bill
and all the practicalities of life and then and he started
the one thing that stuck in my mind was your be successful you have a very
successful life but you want we hit your stride or your big success won't come
until you're in your forties when you're 23 next week i cant wait 42 had this
party paper this this deep with my writing on it and I didn't I couldn't
remember what was in it apart from that one thing I couldn't remember anything
else and I looked at it I thought I felt great about you know what is you just
have to take the adventure I absolutely don't want to know what I did remember
that one thing and it was right about that came with such a wonderful i mean
it was an absolutely great role and the time you know it's very common to have
women needing TV series at that time it was unheard you had had taken later in
June but apart porque lacy don't think there was any other TV series by a
single
and insecure
a new quite a lot about already but I try to change into line you know quite
difficult to do that because I think she was very very because of a job and the
way she operated she was going to be very very guarded I read the book was
about it was difficult to get into into that line I had theory that she was
she'd been sexually abused when she was young ones down I know you know as a
child but I said we think when she when she came to New York young actress I
think he probably had to put up with a lot of crap a lot
in some way and hungry she called her house the hostages killed so she was
very conscious of what she was capable of doing and absolutely useless in doing
it if she felt she needed to it was a mentality that I find very very
difficult to come to grips with actually there's no I do recognize it that is a
human trade you know there are people who have that single mindedness and and
and ability to be absolutely with us with it I'm not like that so I it's hard
to get into I mean there was a scene in time but that was cut that I like and
added to the mix pain medication extending the machine when she wandered
in the Korean War soldier who's headed
lost it all in the war and comes up to head one of those functions and said you
hope I just want to thank you for what you're doing
America where we are in the armed services are right behind you the truth
about their time and just put into the historical context she was in an
incredibly fun to play because she is so clean debate is a product of you know
those troubled wonderful
deeply felt like you know his girl Friday with just the right there on who
they would they knew they would people they did they did Lockwood's they used
words very well
roles and difficulty honestly it's always hard when it is very much to do
with who the people what they want is different you know making laws and
changes it is a different experience pic director is incredibly important very
important does the character appear on the last page script and and is it
different from the last thing I did battle you know something I was 113 time
I will get you an attorney for you but you're right I could change it wasn't
all of your favorite amongst your favorite people
UK with Super you know I went to the recruit absolutely determined to reach I
also if we could do a reading of the play before we you know committed to
anything and I went to read through thinking I'm going to do the read
and I'm going to say I'm really sorry but I don't think this is her character
you wanted for your house yet and I walked in and there was this amazing
team beat people here to people issue goes right Stephen don't get the direct
designer
need of British theatre people and I thought you're going to walk away from
this you know you have to do it was a great experience was able to take my
kids to meeting you know it was amazing you when you know from the age of 52
2560 7233 and then off 285 so quickly changes it was challenging wonderful
challenge when you played the Queen cure were approached to do it on film
be restored to complete embarrassment I guess I have to do it would you remind
kato emotional yeah because oh goodness me now it's become what some large know
about him being in the wrong
and you know all of this stuff but it was it had never been done little and so
little blue chips such as he hate it consumes relationship with the world all
want to destroy them say anything about it
stories in the newspaper so you know it was very very intimidating thought and I
loved your description and you went on stage
reception and you found yourself right throwing your money in detail thinking
what the hell am I am i doing in my husband and when you want to bring me
down he was talking cry for me nicely
and get back to you got to meet a bunch of people applauding no I didn't know
what else to do I just kept morning and went on loan to get them something right
opened up all these parts of you know one of the things you're distributing
heroin choose mentioning look like a neglected to gender discrimination in
hollywood feel you and your gender and I thought you had to field all these
questions
Helen know how do you think you'll find in two women had been having trying to
have the computation time every day finally the congregation is beginning to
be heard repeating media and talked about I just hope it continues I told
you how long just to be a conversation between two different like a good
environment for young these days coming up in terms of you
you can do whatever you write another pill last night it was until court
Angelina was going on tonight
in
situation
in a couple of actual I had no idea what to do and support John Bull and when we
did you see a little bit of these options mean Liam Neeson Gabriel
none of us had any you know it is we have no idea about what you're supposed
to do it was very patient with us really I don't appear to have moderated by then
I speak getting up towards my debt is so then I stopped doing whenever anything
came up television anything in front of the camera I did do a lot of television
I accepted it just be able to learn and the biggest learning of prime suspect so
many many many months but when I did when I didn't coast with Peter where I
was still in life do it sort of thing and it was amazing to watch House
who was subsequently lost Apple movie star he knew frame was to do what he was
in his master technician and I would I watched him trying to understand but
then I thought no I'm going to go down the route I'm going to just twenty is
creates possible which was with the result but I was never on the picture we
didn't get it was over there doing
chillin real crazy but it's all part of the puzzle learning and with a different
to interviewing in america i mean i think is an American right for the part
additional with acting like he had to be right for the preconceived my history a
difference you know I think because what I can do and we've been arranging it
because you know when you start rehearsals you got four weeks to go
five weeks speaks to his considerable change everyday gonna bring something
new into it will be like that thats good lets you do something else you can do
what you do I want you to know what you did in the audition auditions alleged
all the things to do
I thought I thought it was just a good actress told that one thing that was a
bit of a shock I didn't have to do much that I did a lot of politicians and then
I hope you told me you were talking last year when you watch the cream first with
your husband will close watching it can share with us what you asked her husband
was killed when it reaches thing they do this embarrassing thing in the audience
is all day and you and the filmmakers have to prominence it almost like on a
on thrown you know but very exposed with no one in front of your ground you know
you're stating the filmmakers and at the end of the long run
platform boots you know said it's quite intimidating and either Taylor or I had
seen the film and the first shot in the film is mean full regain that we put the
full regalia being painted a portrait painted and first officer film it's me
turning and looking straight down look strange audience we going down the
bottle can you really do that in film and silence respectful silence my
husband lips away
allowed oh my god you make love to me and get right