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Article: the reluctant dame; Helen Mirren officially joined the pantheon of Great British Actresses when she became a Dame earlier this year. But, as she prepares for her role in Eugene O'Neill's epic play Mourning Becomes Electra, she tells Alison Roberts how the A-list lifestyle will always feel like a parallel universe.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2003
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Byline: ALISON ROBERTS
In a recent newspaper column, TV presenter Anne Robinson bemoaned the fact that women in their late fifties 'can't all look like Helen Mirren', and proceeded to list the anatomical reasons why - she has saggy arms, Helen's are taut, she has fat hips, Helen doesn't, her face looks 'drawn', Mirren remains youthfully glam, and so on. It's become part of the myth surrounding 58-year-old Mirren (or Dame Helen, as we must call her, following the Queen's birthday honours this summer) that all women are admiringly jealous of her looks and figure, and that all right-thinking men fancy the pants off her.
For this reason, her casting as ...