Enjoyed reading the interview with the regal Helen Mirren in today’s Guardian in which she describes herself as an instinctive feminist.
It is rare for an actress to stay at the top for so long and with such dignity.
The TV interview with the instinctively sexist Michael Parkinson in 1975 when she was 30 shows vividly her intelligence and unwillingness to accept bullshit, a model that all actresses would do well to follow :
