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New York Post
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- New York Post
Helen Mirren tells five A-list actresses that ‘none of us are beautiful'
Helen Mirren is coming in with a hot take. While sitting down for The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable, the star, 79, got a chance to speak with Kathy Bates, Niecy Nash-Betts, Parker Posey, Keri Russell and Cristin Milioti about the ups and downs of the entertainment industry. 'I was told to have a nose job in my 20s,' Mirren told her fellow actors. 'Someone said, 'You'll never get work if you don't have a nose job.' I said no. I didn't want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty.' Advertisement 8 Dame Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Niecy Nash-Betts, Parker Posey, Keri Russell and Cristin Milioti. Beau Grealy for 'The Hollywood Reporter' Nash-Betts, 55, replied, 'First of all, too late. Because you are. But I understand what you mean, in theory. I love being shiny in my real life. On camera, don't care. I want to look like a dog. It doesn't bother me to disappear in some of those roles.' The 'Claws' alum added, 'I feel sorry for people who have been beautiful their whole life. Because when that's what you're known for, you got to keep it up for your whole life? I don't know what I'd do.' Advertisement Bates, 76, who recently spoke out about how she once lost a starring role due to her looks, chimed in, 'I don't know if y'all have the same experience, but when you see an amazing performance, it doesn't matter what that person looks like — they're beautiful.' 8 Helen Mirren attends Lights On Women's Worth at Plage Des Palmes on May 24, 2024 in Cannes, France. Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris But Mirren begged to differ, shockingly quipping, 'Looking at our faces around this table, none of us are beautiful.' 'Oh, get out of town!' Bates fired back. 'I feel more beautiful than I have in my entire life.' Advertisement Mirren, however, decided to double down. 8 Helen Mirren in 'Prime Suspect.' Courtesy Everett Collection 'We're not. None of us are beauties,' she pressed. 'We all have really different faces, very interesting faces.' Russell, 49, came to the English actress's defense, telling the ladies, 'I know what you mean. Like model beautiful?' Advertisement Mirren expressed, 'We all know what 'beautiful' is like.' 8 Kathy Bates in 1990's 'Misery.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Milioti, 39, reflected on her own experience with being a woman in Hollywood, sharing, 'If I look back 10 years, I was often playing a version of 'a girl of someone's dreams.' 'That didn't feel like my life experience, which is fine, but the older I get, the more I feel like I'm taking off a pair of tight pants. I feel so much freer. It's not a dig at any of those projects,' she continued. 'It's how you're perceived at 25. I was auditioning to play sorority girls or a dead body in a trunk or someone who was in love with a 40-year-old and being like, 'Have you ever tried dancing in the rain?' To leave that behind felt really good.' On the flip side, Milioti said, 'In the culture, there is such a celebration of men who really go for it.' 8 Keri Russell in 'Felicity.' ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection 'They'll do a crazy thing, and everyone's like, 'Wow, he must take this so seriously.' I've witnessed some of that, mostly just heard about it, and have thought that if I ever did that, it would not end well. And that still happens.' 'Misogyny,' Posey, 56, simply stated. 'When you asked that question, I felt myself kind of deflate because I think the misogyny is so rampant. To be a dynamic character or a dynamic woman or even a dynamic person, it's kind of outrageous right now. There's something very provincial that's happened. I feel the need to be really entertaining and make people laugh.' Advertisement 'Beautiful, but she doesn't know it,' Mirren said about what was always written above character descriptions. 8 Niecy Nash in 'Reno 911.' ©Comedy Central/Courtesy Everett Collect / Everett Collection Bates has also seen that happen, recalling, 'I made the mistake of asking the casting guy, 'Why does everybody have to be beautiful?' And he said, 'If you want to go and make your own female version of 'Marty,' be my guest.' So I left. I was asking an honest question. It still makes me pissed.' 'Marty' was a 1995 romance/drama that followed the life of bachelor Marty Piletti. Advertisement 'This is something I can really believe in. It means something. Up until that point, things were starting to wind down for me. I was getting roles that I really cared about in films that no one would see. [There was] disappointment in the way things were edited,' Bates confessed. 'It started to hurt too much. I just thought that maybe I ought to think about putting my house on the market and moving to France or something. I just wanted some real stimulation.' 8 Cristin Milioti in 'How I Met Your Mother.' ©CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection Although Mirren might not consider herself beautiful, she doesn't want to slow down anytime soon, telling the outlet, 'I'm old. I didn't die young, and the reason that I want to live as long as I possibly can — and continue working as long as I possibly can — is exactly what Keri said. It's the adventure of it.' Just last month, the 'MobLand' vet shared her beauty advice with E! News, telling the outlet that aging is 'nature, it's what happens.' Advertisement 8 Parker Posey. (c)First Look Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection 'All I can say is,' she quipped, 'don't worry [about aging]. It's cool.' 'My mother said the greatest thing to me: 'Never be afraid of getting older,'' reminisced Mirren. 'Of course, when you're 18, middle age is like a foreign country. It's so far away from you. But, you know, when you arrive in that country, you realize that country has great things. Maybe you like that country better than the country you left behind.'
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Barbra Streisand Sends Bold Message to Helen Mirren After Her Cannes Appearance
took a break from sweet personal updates on social media to send a direct message to none other than after seeing her iconic red carpet look at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 22. The actress attended the red carpet for the screening of Colours of Time, or La Venue De L'avenir in French, posing with fellow actresses Aishwarya Rai and Cara Delevingne at one point. 🎬 🎬 Mirren looked stunning in a black gown with a Tiffany blue sash around her waist that formed a bow at the back. She also wore a huge statement necklace and a black hat that perched on the front right of her head. After seeing the look, Streisand took to Instagram to share a photo and write a short message for Mirren, saying, "Dear Helen, you look gorgeous. What an outfit. And the hat that you can see your eyes through! With Love, Barbra." Fans seemed to agree with Streisand's opinion, with reactions in the comments like, "Dame Helen always SLAYS! 🙌❤️," "Beautiful, love it🔥💯😍," and "Where do I get this hat!!!? 🙏❤️." "Yes, she is a lady with class✨," declared another fan. Others loved how supportive Streisand is, leading someone else to comment, "When you prove you're a fabulous girls girl Barbra 💖💖."Barbra Streisand Sends Bold Message to Helen Mirren After Her Cannes Appearance first appeared on Parade on May 24, 2025
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery
Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery originally appeared on Parade. Helen Mirren may be an icon of Hollywood, but the legendary actress has dealt with the same ridiculous requests as the rest of the women in her industry. Mirren, 79, sat down with several other heavy hitters like Keri Russell, Parker Posey, and Kathy Bates for The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable, and recalled being told that she should go under the knife for plastic surgery when she was younger. "I was told to have a nose job in my 20s," Mirren told her fellow actresses. "Someone said, 'You'll never get work if you don't have a nose job.' I said no. I didn't want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty." 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 The other stars, including Cristin Milioti and Niecy Nash-Betts, jumped in to tell Mirren how stunning she is. "First of all, too late. Because you are," Nash-Betts replied. Bates also joined in the conversation about terrible advice, noting that she was once advised to hide her cancer diagnosis. "I had ovarian cancer in 2003, and my agent said, 'Don't tell anybody. You don't want to be the poster child for ovarian cancer.' I think if I had come out at that point, maybe it would have helped some people. Because when I had breast cancer in 2012, speaking up helped people. I regret not doing that 'the first time.' Because I went underground," she recalled. "I was on the board at the Academy, and I called them and said, 'I can't come to any of the meetings.' I just hid for a whole year. So it was bad advice, career and personal."Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery first appeared on Parade on May 30, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared.
See - Sada Elbalad
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- See - Sada Elbalad
Here's Our First Look at "The Thursday Murder Club"
Yara Sameh Netflix has unveiled the first teaser for the anticipated film adaptation of Richard Osman's novel 'The Thursday Murder Club." Directed by Chris Columbus, the murder mystery stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as four irrepressible retirees — Elizabeth (Mirren), Ron (Brosnan), Ibrahim (Kingsley) and Joyce (Imrie) — who spend their time-solving cold case murders for fun. According to an official synopsis, 'The Thursday Murder Club' follows ex-spy Elizabeth (Mirren), ex-union activist Ron (Brosnan), ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim (Kingsley) and ex-nurse Joyce (Imrie), whose casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when an unexpected death occurs on their doorstep." The full cast of 'The Thursday Murder Club' includes Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Richard E. Grant, and Ingrid Oliver. Produced by Columbus and Jennifer Todd, the film is the latest feature to come out of Netflix's partnership with Amblin Entertainment. 'The Thursday Murder Club' is co-written by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote, with Osman executive producing alongside Jo Burn, Eleanor Columbus, Holly Bario, and Jeb Brody. Osman's 'Thursday Murder Club' book spawned a series with three sequels: 'The Man Who Died Twice,' 'The Bullet That Missed' and 'The Last Devil to Die,' as well as the newest installment, 'The Impossible Fortune,' which will be released later this year. 'The Thursday Murder Club" was the bestselling book of the decade in the UK. The book follows a quartet of retirees who spend their time-solving cold cases for fun. 'The Thursday Murder Club' will debut on August 28 on Netflix. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks
RTÉ News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren team up in The Thursday Murder Club trailer
Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan can be seen teaming up to solve a cold case in a new trailer for the Netflix film adaption of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. The adaptation, based on the book series by game show host and author Osman, follows four retirees, played by Mirren, former James Bond actor Brosnan, Celia Imrie, and Kingsley, who spend their time solving historic murders. In the trailer a woman's body can be seen flying out of a window with a knife in her chest, as the crime solving group stand around a board of evidence before being interrupted by a woman who asks "isn't this room normally reserved for jigsaws", "not on a Thursday, no", Mirren's character replies. Later in the clip, Imrie's character can be heard saying: "There's been a murder, an actual murder, now we've got a real cast to solve, isn't it wonderful? Obviously RIP and all that." In later shots, Mirren can be seen racing through the streets in a silver sports car and being approached by a figure in the shadows. Mirren, 79, and Brosnan, 71, recently starred alongside one another as husband and wife in Ronan Bennett's series MobLand, also starring Tom Hardy. The Thursday Murder Club is directed by Harry Potter producer Christopher Columbus and follows the characters, who usually focus on cold cases, as an unexplained death leads to them taking on a whodunnit case. The cast also includes Richard E Grant, Tom Ellis, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Mays and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. After it was released in September 2023, Osman's fourth instalment in The Thursday Murder Club book series, The Last Devil To Die, achieved platinum sales status. His follow-up book is called The Impossible Fortune and is set for release in September. The Thursday Murder Club will launch on 28 August on Netflix.
