Helen Mirren At The Dorchester (1969)
The actress was posing in her white button-down top, tweed skirt, fringed shawl, and the declaration necklace at Dorchester’s hotel. “When I was an adult, I noticed how awfully unjust the environment for women is. Any direction you looked around the odds were skewed against you, which struck me as ridiculous outmoded. I want to see roles that represent women as well as genders, that do not ignore or undermine them,” Mirren shared with Glamour. “I have always had a powerful sense of justice.
Helen Mirren At The Dorchester (1969)
Helen Mirren In The ‘70s (1975)
Back in the ’70s, Mirren was flabbergasted by this plunging black outfit, red lipstick and huge curls. The star told Elle, “Women don’t get asked to be in war movies very much, let alone play the lead in a way. So those two things. I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. The film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what may be a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought [my film Eye In The Sky] was great. It was a great script.”
Helen Mirren In The ‘70s (1975)
