icons I think it yeah me too hopefully I mean I'll just chillin with further

questions he thought I would think about preparing tonight we've heard of it in

terms of pine talk of peak times talk and you don't get much better than an

hour at the people apparently so foolish and stupid they had they would do you

know and you deal he gets paid and we pride ourselves sitting here it was a

clever ploy by the people of total to pretend to be as mad as gates because he

didn't want to pay their taxes

completely dual alleyway King John wouldn't come down with all his you know

his army upon them and and claim taxes so that's ahead goes to start with

Batman but no Washington berlin founder name and and used it in a terrible piece

of writing another question and people who the BAFTA co-sponsored events people

might also know that in 2002 but you became a Dane Dane

here I think of dame Edna and then I think gains from guys and dolls but

that's not it at all its oil paintings hanging

nothing to do with royalty or anything like that it's like your career

Congressional Medal of Honor it in your country just need join world you know

keep it up sort of thing that I read your book thing I really wish to London

parity because you know your family backgrounds working class and the other

side but on the other side

your grandfather with part of the largest army he was in russia and just

hoping to be in Britain when you live illusion happened you talking with one

other thing to do by the door to make an arms deal with the British government

because the russians he just bought the Russian Japanese war and he found

realized that they were incredibly under our new armaments

at that time Britain and England Britain Russia had a very close relationship in

this area was the one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters I think there

was a close relationship so my grandfather along with another

person was sent you an arms deal with the British government deadline real

Russia 16 yeah just before the Russian Federation it took longer than he

thought it was going to take him he brought his wife and his young father

who was 21 born in russia and he brought his wife and young son over and

basically you know they had been regulations before the major Bolshevik

Revolution which is always being crossed troubled away to nothing like being

around the military was convinced that the nation would never hold so he

thought six months you know of course and he could never do about six in

russia and his mother and he saw them again and it saved his life and many

others and she was going to extraordinary I was kidding my great

harm to Mike Wallace system whilst I thought destroyed because they were just

perfect candidates they were intellectuals middle-class they had a

relatively abroad

attacking me they would just play candidates but they state

huge difficulty and your grandfather when the taxi driver in your father

became a taxi driver told us why so many immigrants during my grandfather student

directory and in Britain was sort of like this he started off living in great

comfort in the russian embassy in London which was very very glamorous than you

know and then of course because it was no more relationship and he had no way

of making money

speak English due to his credit he never paid the money that was all put in the

bank and it had the gentleman to access it they would be only signatures to a

very very large sum of money to pay phones and he misused to steal the money

would you use that would have been of his

joined the Communist Party in British London history just because the Second

World War when also closely with me

London passages leader along with russia's parties I'm sure you know there

was quite a strong fascist movement in in europe and in London before the

second world war and then there was a great movement against it as well

fight against people fighting against us take a left wing so there was a famous

smart and his fascist Blackshirts took through the east end of london because

he's going to London at that time was where the Jewish community immigrant

jewish community community was based in London so the flashes were delivered in

walking part of London to show their aggression and violence and my father

and it became known as the battle of Cable Street because the left wing

social right up again and went to my father was one of those people in Battle

of Cape a product that and you can I was wondering you know the idea of having

played the Queen you started happening and UK attitude for the keep clean when

you were younger but that really shifted the more you got to know

think about my mother was never as left-wingers Portugal's my father was an

issue with an east-end working-class woman from London London family so she

wasn't actually the vegetarians riverhead years ahead of horrified but I

really hope

way thank you what happened understanding with a terrible moment for

a lot of the people who believe in Hindi you can pin your idealism of communism

it's a beautiful idea and of course the reality was the realization of the loss

of that dream a lot of that utopian ideas of how beautiful the world could

be I think was a very painful my father's generation but I was brought up

in I'm getting that run to the Queen I was brought up in a very anti monarchist

my mom and my dad really really thought it was rubbish you know the monarchy and

point

you playing the Queen and making me forcing myself to enter into who this

person is in really controlling isolation of watching the way in which I

found a huge growing in me and i actually became a lot of our beloved I i

still filled out you know

well with you you know I mean I think we will all the products and parents and I

was the product of two of two people both really believed in winning

independent and we believe that we should not just women but as people you

know they grew up in a used when they were young

in London it was a depression date again and went to second world war and when

the patient safety or so they say twenty years it's ok you and twenty to forty

was very very difficult when you really need to change depending which are

important and they wanted my sister teaches and I did actually trained as a

teacher became a teacher knows our wonderful teacher but that was not what

I and II did you were you were being knowing that you wanted to act of a

fuzzy origin story of sorts for you

not have analyzed cost you a good combination I was playing the Virgin

Mary

actually populist you know that sort of place and we had to appear longer

sparing the world court along and south end here and at the end of the year when

I was growing up literally had shoes at the end you know some issues like page

to show and it was a variety store to share with the community and and a

comedian was very funny and I fell off my seat I remember laughing and dancing

girls game

and again had been Katie things on and I just she was mesmerised I thought it was

just the most beautiful wonderful thing I've ever seen in my life and I guess

when I was about to jump or took me to an amateur production of hundred when I

was about 12 13 and it's the perfect age to see hamlet never having seen you know

that hundreds die or new story watching him in the end it as much as anything

production I just was absolutely transported to reach in leading world is

just incredible part tree we understand the world of high school of grass that

was something fantastic and it's shakespeare who went ham and we had this

one of those huge box of shakespeare you know and if you had one of those but

when the Prince like this more complete works of Shakespeare and I went to that

book and I just started looking through reading using characters an amazing

scene

and a teacher a champion of you wait for me yes which was really launched me

because I didn't I went to college but there was his organization can afford

just financially impossible being you know sort of battle in the house trip to

get to allow you to go I auditioned secretly but once I got in in something

you did in the summer holidays he didn't cost them anything it didn't cost me

anything in terms of my education so it was fine that was absolutely fine and it

was actually what I was very lucky I like it we have is a lovely couple

compilation through it now that the Dolphins put together last night of your

career

alluring to keep his memory alive

because people forget you see especially the young

the other way

I'm surrounded by

of course but times change

the Queen and then he went on in that bank before concluding I know I'm on the

edge of creepiness here and you know something that day beginning you know

how do you feel about your pic the cali the infamous nineteen coming to

television interview where you are in front of the camera to you how he

serious popular with that he would just stare directly at your breath and

complete something like okay because bob deniro she called me I would never I did

but coming from him just feel different now because you know you're not as

pretty as not a vacation having played upon as jack-booted who actually good at

a time when you comin 252 you question it had no I i meeting you huge

difference between someone being funny in presentation and someone being

interviewed I think this is and I get it done in my life and it was very much of

it

as well you know I wasn't surprising to it it's become the time nobody thought

twice about it i did i do you know I'm a little confused why when I look at it

now and you can I was amazed how I handled it extremely well with them and

grace grace interview never lived it down a long time coming and you really

do your magic bullet may need to what happened in this case

well indication I'm and I did I was appearing on Saturday Night Live and it

was one of the girls I did so many female is a female and it saturday night

live it feeling confused upset tired or depressed about it they cannot imagine

how can I know you can and they can bury their heads in my boys that might be a

great thank you so much

made headlines here Helen Mirren to casual no longer do nudity i mean you

know which is true and you would like to come back and bite you if you do but you

know hopefully never been in that way of all perhaps nuclear language everything

pivoted was

but you wouldn't you'd give you helpful but not until the age of 45 at this true

story like a story I hear you I wouldn't you you know when I think 23 difficult

time for people in general the world and you do come crashing down upon you may

need to apply for driving licence car insurance and pay no electricity bill

and all the practicalities of life and then and he started

the one thing that stuck in my mind was your be successful you have a very

successful life but you want we hit your stride or your big success won't come

until you're in your forties when you're 23 next week i cant wait 42 had this

party paper this this deep with my writing on it and I didn't I couldn't

remember what was in it apart from that one thing I couldn't remember anything

else and I looked at it I thought I felt great about you know what is you just

have to take the adventure I absolutely don't want to know what I did remember

that one thing and it was right about that came with such a wonderful i mean

it was an absolutely great role and the time you know it's very common to have

women needing TV series at that time it was unheard you had had taken later in

June but apart porque lacy don't think there was any other TV series by a

single

and insecure

a new quite a lot about already but I try to change into line you know quite

difficult to do that because I think she was very very because of a job and the

way she operated she was going to be very very guarded I read the book was

about it was difficult to get into into that line I had theory that she was

she'd been sexually abused when she was young ones down I know you know as a

child but I said we think when she when she came to New York young actress I

think he probably had to put up with a lot of crap a lot

in some way and hungry she called her house the hostages killed so she was

very conscious of what she was capable of doing and absolutely useless in doing

it if she felt she needed to it was a mentality that I find very very

difficult to come to grips with actually there's no I do recognize it that is a

human trade you know there are people who have that single mindedness and and

and ability to be absolutely with us with it I'm not like that so I it's hard

to get into I mean there was a scene in time but that was cut that I like and

added to the mix pain medication extending the machine when she wandered

in the Korean War soldier who's headed

lost it all in the war and comes up to head one of those functions and said you

hope I just want to thank you for what you're doing

America where we are in the armed services are right behind you the truth