I imagine that's just what your life is like these days, wherever you go.

People cheering, applauding.

No, but, you know, I just had the through Almost the thrill of my life.

I just make from the Clash backstage.

Jesus, you had never met before.

No, no, I'm not very rock and roll, you know?

So it's true.

That's not well.

First, I was very excited.

Yeah, I tricked him into playing one of my guitars backstage.

You know, I could sell it on ebay.

Uh, so much to talk about.

I have not.

The last time you were here, you had just begun your promotional campaigns in the Queen for the Queen.

But you had not One year Austria.

So congratulations.

That was a thrilling moment.

People watching it, I imagine for you it was fantastic.

It was a moment when life stood still.

Really?

For that.

That second.

It's very strange when the I've been there a couple of times, they opened the envelope.

Oh, it's not me.

Let's go for a drink.

You know, this time it's bad when you do that instantly, though, it's that when you stand up or take out a flask right there.

It's not good.

That was a great moment.

I would think so.

And now you know this this book in the frame and this is your your life in words.

But also pictures life, I might say No, no, not your whole life is a little bit back for later.

Yes, that's good.

That's good, because there's a lot of a lot more to come.

But one of the things I loved and I don't want this to make me sound stupid.

But there's a lot of pictures here which are, you know, and words air hard, Uh, but striking pictures.

I always go for the pictures.

When I look a biography and autobiography, I go straight for the pictures.

So I thought, You know what?

I'm gonna do a book with a whole load of pictures in and you are so open about your life here.

You're obviously very comfortable just sharing everything that's happened.

Now I keep a few secrets back, so I say I haven't haven't totally dished the dirt.

There's some There's more to come.

There's more to come do.

Yeah, that's that's quite a lot of it In there.

There are things in here that I'd be nervous about if I were in the same situation.

You talk a little bit about your parents sex life, and I'm thinking, Oh my God, that's just my mind explodes.

Very concept.

Is it weird that people hate to think their parents having sex?

I don't think that's weird at all.

I think that's healthy.

I think it's weird if they think about it too much.

Darling, you have something to tell you.

Yes, that's how you got here.

No, no, it was a rabbit.

Think about a magical rabbit, I'm told.

With what?

Rabbit?

It's a wand and there's a fairy and there's a cabbage patch.

I don't wanna get into the whole thing.

It was all explained to me when I was 38 but you talk in this book.

It's amazing.

Your you were in in the movie Caligula, which is one of the most disgusting films sexually wow out there movies on the sets I remembered were very sexual, everything about it, and you invited your mom to visit you on the set of Caligula.

I always took my mom.

Whenever I went on location anywhere, I took my mom because she never traveled.

You know, she was a She was a working class girl from London, and she always dreamed to travel.

So when I finally did start traveling, making movies, I would always bring my mom on set.

So, you know, Caligula was made in Rome in Italy, so I very much wanted her to visit.

Add a nice apartment.

She could stay with me.

Andi also, my mom was so cool because she, you know, she would just sit and chat to anyone on the set.

Whatever said it was on on, you know, on Caligula there she was sort of sitting between two enormous golden fallacies, you know, on her on chatting.

And no one on Caligula ever wore clothes with weird.

If someone came on set wearing anything, eso she sit chatting away to a naked extra anyway, you know.

What do you do?

Yeah.

Have you tried clothing?

Yeah, very cool.

She was very She was very good.

Very cool for a sort of basically a nun.

Cool woman who wasn't a sort of sophisticated woman.

Really.

But But it must have been in this book.

You talk about how much you travel you've been all over the world countless times.

You've had all these adventures.

I think it's neat that you would include your mom like that in these adventures.

Yeah, well, yes, I say she'd always dreamt of traveling, so it was great to give her that opportunity.

We have photos.

I just want to show a few pictures from the book.

And there's all kinds of photos in here, so we can't even do justice.

Very some very sexy photographs here.

I hope you don't mind us showing them.

Here you are.

And I love this photograph.

And, uh, gentlemen, please.

Uh, was this for a magazine?

No.

I lived with a very good photographer called James, which, which for four years, and we did a lot of sort of private erotic work together that wasn't even for a magazine.

That was just No, no, they would not do that.

Let's do this right.

Don't I wear black stockings and yeah, it's raining out.

Let's do this.

No way did on dso some of our work together is in the book.

He was He's a wonderful photographer.

We have ah picture here.

This is actually your mom eyes visiting you here.

And what we noticed is in the background.

I'm pretty sure that's a certain kind of plant that's growing.

Uh, your mom, You keep saying she's not cool.

She is the coolest mom you won that needs married.

Needs more water there.

No, she had no idea on.

She's a gardener.

You know, she loved to garden, but she had.

There's a green thumb, I tell you.

Yeah, she had absolutely no idea.

What that What is that plant, darling, We won't talk.

I've never seen that one before.

What is it?

Oh, it's a kind of geranium.

Mom.

Yes.

Does it flower?

No, not normally.

Way smoke it, Mama, please.

Uh, no.

In a similar vein, we you took a photograph.

Very uninhibited.

This is I think you experimenting with LSD.

And this is a photograph that someone took.

Maybe you're so sex, drugs and rock and roll, aren't you e o for that?

Yeah, that's me all over.

Yeah.

Nice pictures of trees in here, but I thought no one wants to see that.

Yes, it was the very beginning of the one and only acid trip I ever took, which was absolutely fantastic.

I have to say?

E You know what?

That's That's what I look like after a big meal.

So it's the same.

Pretty much has the same value as a Thanksgiving dinner.

Yeah.

Um, anyway, so it was wonderful, but never again.

Only that one time too extreme, just really too much.

I have to ask you about this.

I know that there's so many fantastic stories about your life in the theater experimental theater, and you have great stories about being in the West End of London.

And of course, things change and things become more gentrified and fancy.

But we're talking about the times in the West End of London was a dodgy place.

My God, it still is it still, if you've been there on Saturday night recently?

I mean, it's a wild It's a wild, wild place or west end.

No, you're often doing, you know, I was doing check off.

You know, all the football supporters would be outside ing our snow arsenal arsenal, you know, into 19th century Russia.

But I had some great experience.

So you're trying to do a period play in 19th century Russia and you're trying to do this thing classic work and then outside.

It's the 19 sixties and all.

Hell's breaking.

Yes, definitely.

Absolutely.

Um, you know, I did a play in about the rock and roll business called Teeth and Smiles written by David Hair, and I was playing so Janis Joplin character on I'm a terrible singer.

I can't sing it all.

So that was a bit of a dodgy thing for me singing on stage.

But anyway, I'm about to go on from my last entrance, and I hear this my a dressing room overlooks the back alley.

Um, where the dress it where the stage door is.

I hear this incredible crashing and banging and noise and on everything on I hope makes listening to this because he'll appreciate it.

And I look out the back and that's where all the right the trash cans are on their climbing out of one of the trash cans.

Is this completely drunken guy?

Totally old, as we say in England.

Andi, I like it.

Onda, uh, covered now in trash and got pinstripe suit on and a complete madman.

So I think, you know, some drunk as usual Saturday night in London.

So I go waiting to go on for my last entrance.

And then I hear the crashing and banging coming in through the stage door.

And I think, Oh, my God is broken into the theater.

And then I hear the crashing and banging coming up the stairs outside my dressing room.

And then the crashing and banging stops right outside my dressing room on my bunk bunk.

Ellen, Ellen, come on.

Ellen and I opened the door and it's Keith Moon.

The moon Keith Moon Insane.

Who?

Drummer Keith Moon Wonder my childhood hero.

Exactly.

Standing then he was the man in the trash.

Can I g Oh, hello, darling.

I hear you're fantastic in this play, I said Oh, hello, Keith.

It's really nice to meet you.

I'm very honored, you know.

Thank you for coming to visit.

Yes.

All right, darling.

So, like, I've got to leave you now because I got to go on stage.

Just don't worry.

I'll come with you.

Thing is great.

This would be a no.

It would take some explaining in this play.

No, Keith, don't you stay here.

No, it's alright.

Come of playing your band.

It'll be good.

You know, Um uh, to my I'm so idiotic.

That's why I say I'm not rock and roll.

If I was rocking, Reid said, Yeah.

Come on, man.

A historic Instead I went Oh, no, no, you can't.

It's a theater.

We don't do that sort of thing.

You know, I'm one of my great regrets is not having appeared on stage with Keith Moon.

Yes, yes, that's fantastic.

Well, uh, we're out of time, which is always a shame, because I could talk to you for nine hours and I hope to do that someday when I break into your home Uh uh In the frame Helen Mirren.

My life in words and pictures is available.

It's really a fantastic book.

It is such a thrill from you when you stop by.

Thank you so much.

Really an honor.

Thank you, Helen Mirren.