A little adventure is acceptable as long as it’s moderate, according to acclaimed actress Dame Helen Mirren.
Don’t smoke and try everything, Dame Helen Mirren’s best advice for young people to stay young is clear.
The acclaimed actress will turn 80 next month but looks much younger than her advancing years. Asked for advice she said: “Don’t smoke, that’s rule number one and do everything but don’t do too much of anything. That’s a great way of looking at things, because it’s important to take care of your health, but you also don’t want to live like a nun.”
Dame Helen, who won an Oscar for Elizabeth II one of a number of royals she has played, says she will never get used to being a star and has a lack of ego. She explained: “It always surprises me when someone comes up to me in a supermarket or an airport and says that they think I’m great, but it’s lovely. This sort of thing is fun. It’s fabulous. It’s fantastic. It doesn’t feel right to say that I’m proud of being a role model to people, but it’s a great feeling.”
Dame Helen claims to have always enjoyed makeup and still finds it enjoyable to put on for hours.
She said, “My favorite treat is going to a drug store and buying myself another lip liner,” in a statement to Grazia magazine. I spend hours applying makeup to my little desk at home. I’ve always enjoyed doing it.
Not that I dislike trying out new products, I don’t. Although the innovation is incredible, it’s heartbreaking when you apply the golden chalice foundational mascara that you love only to find that it has been discontinued a few years later.
She even brought a box of their hair dye home with her to test it out before promoting it because she takes her position so seriously as an ambassador.
She confirmed the rumor by saying, “That’s the whole point, isn’t it, isn’t it? ” To be able to tell people it’s a great product, which it is, I wanted to do it myself.
A new L’Oreal initiative to support women in the film industry was also praised by Dame Helen.
When she first started out as an actress in The Old Vic as Cleopatra at the age of 20, she said, “When I first came on the scene as an actress, there would be 150 men and three women almost exclusively working in the costume, hair, and makeup departments.”
“I’m talking about women directors, cinematographers, women in the sound department, and women in the electrical department,” I hear that about a quarter of the people on a movie set right now. It is heartfelt.
We will next see Dame Helen on screen in Netflix ’s film version of the Richard Osman book The Thursday Murder Club, where she is playing retirement village sleuth Elizabeth Best. It is released on August 28.
* The full interview can be found in the most recent issue of Grazia Magazine.
Source: Mirror
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