Id like to think that women do that cause they know that it makes men think/feel a certain way. I do that not to be slutty but to prove how easy men are and how shallow their mind is.
@@timphillips9954you have to understand the age in which this was, sexism in society towards women was rife and a very male chauvinist world. I think she handled this really well as did Parky. Nothing bad to see here it’s a good interview
Helen is more mature, cultured, self-assured, and charming than the interviewer at her young age and makes Parkinson look like a pretentious prune in a suit. What an absolute delight. No wonder she is so loved to this day.
I love that his sexism doesn't censor her sexuality, or the fact that she is a SEXUAL person. Any other woman would have tried too hard to prove him wrong by acting very non-sexual and insisting in every way possible that she is not just a body....but she didn't resort to that. If she did, she would have been complicit in an all too familiar game set up for many women to lose. She didn't sacrifice her sexuality to prove him wrong, when he was clearly trying to corner her into doing so. He basically tried to shame her. She is sexy and sexual and it's HIS problem if that is all he can see. His loss if he can't comprehend the concurrent existence of her sexuality with her talent and "serious" acting career. What a loser.
Well said OP. Clearly hundreds of people argree with your comments. She was patient, charming, natural but did not fall for Parky's hostility bubbling under his smarmy manner.
@@ClayBlasdel44 They were boring questions, as she rightly pointed out. All that focus on her "equipment"? Prudish and licentious at the same time. "Just spit it out," she said, calling him on just that: prudish, silly questions.
Her sensuality is off the charts, when her strap drop off her shoulder she didn't even bat an eye. This woman is not afraid of aging, she gets better with time. Class!
@adam smith My Goodness, I don't think I stated anywhere that showing skin is classy. If your taking the time to nit pick about my tongue and cheek, dumb ass comments, about this terrific actress. You have way too much time on your hands. FYI, take a look at Helen Mirren in Caligula.
Video should be retitled, Mirren plays Parkinson like a puppet. In P1 Parkinson was trying to establish his dominance and following successive failures he escalated with his language, tone and body posture, until Mirren let him think he'd won that's why in P2 he calmed down a little. Mirren was toying with him throughout the interview, it was like watching an adult handle a toddler. I dont know much about Mirren but from this young age she's shown a great deal of intelligence. That comment about men in leather jackets and men in sharp suites completely flew over Parkinson's head, insulted him right to his face and he had no idea what she was talking about, absolutely loved it.
@cordellwinder8122 Although I was shocked to see Parky ask such questions, I imagine like today, this interview was well planned in advance and both were aware of the need for viewing figures. And dealing with controversial topics - which really are boring - that the masses would click on until today boosted both of their popularity! She did deal with them remarkably well though. And I completely agree with her about education.
When she insinuates he's a chauvinist check out the swallow he does and the intense but muted hiding of his derision in being called out so beautifully.
Parkinson came over as an utter arse-hole here and Helen Mirren had SUCH natural dignity. I do hope that he looks at this video and cringes. I'm pleased that he improved as time went by (Helen didn't need to... but did too).
David Topchiev and today she is one of the best english actreses, very much respected, and new generations know interantionally who she is while no one knows who t f that guy is today
David Topchiev actually she is being considered a great actress for the last 50 years. Why don't you get a little bit of culture before spliting out an opinion? Do you know what i find ironic? Men who talk with such an umbelievable voulgarity as you do and think they can tell what is class. Men that still think, in 2017, that sexuality in women is something dirty to be ashemed of. But of course, they don't usually feel ashemed about their own sexuality. At the contrary. This i find ironic.
This is one of the sexiest women I think I’ve ever seen. She doesn’t try to be, she just is. She is still a beautiful lady today as well as her younger years. A classic looking woman!
WOW Wonderful interview with one of the most attractive & talented female actresses of all time & she is still going & improving in her art now. Totally agree with Eric Lord!!!! From a 72yo Aussie fan.
The sneeze and the confused query masterfully broke his cadence on the question she didn't want to answer and he knew it. He beat off into his sock after this interview.
I worked at the NPG in London for 30 years. 11 years ago at an evening function one of my colleagues spent almost the entire evening talking to Helen. You could say I was a tad jealous.
There are so many things that are very sultry about Helen vs other women (to me at least). Her reserved personality, subtle voice, smile, laughter and wit compound her natural physical beauty. You can sense her delicate inner strength and independence..that enhances her appeal even more. A rare flower.
Gawd I can't tell if it's British humor or not but this guy is stone cold and pompous. I have to say though I like that she's proud of her sexuality rather than glossing over it or making it either good or bad. I also agree with her on porn. It's kind of ashame so many people either gloss over it like it's great or it's bad when it's just business and a very exploitive one at that. She handles herself well especially given that this is obviously uncut and to a great extent unscripted.
That's his interview style; it's what he does. The "British stiff upper lip". Don't worry, it wasn't just you not getting it. :) He's just... kind of shit. I might grt hung, drawn and quartered for that, but I'm not a fan of his at all.
Oh. That's British humor 100%. They're very passive aggressive (sorry to any Brits). Saying catty things, in a "casual" manner, to hide the fact that they're trying so hard to entertain, but also look in control, and dominant, in case the response isn't as they expect.
Bob, You're right and wrong I think. The stone cold pomposity mentioned above is fairly typical dry British humour and wit. That said he did indeed try to take advantage of her with good old 70s sexism. She did stand up to it very well. Helen Mirren was/is a class act.
@Bob Irvine It's called 'flirting'. Maybe you heard about it from your grandparents. It's something of a distant past when it was still allowed and fun. Besides, she LOVED it. Of course she didn't noticed for one moment at all her dress strap was down, surely. Her body language tells that she want to fuck him. if you can't see that you are far gone.
if yr breaking it down as a competition; which his focus tends to turn it into... we could say in fairness that she's had more practice dealing with men as narrowly focused as he is in this interview than he's had dealing with women who field it as smoothly unembarrassed & accurately & eloquently to the point as she does. we could also say in fairness that if viewed as a competition ... she owns him while he's trying to compete & she's not
Being able to handle or manipulate the conversation doesn't mean the host didn't pointedly direct the interview toward her physical attributes and sex appeal and repressed childhood (code words for daddy issues). She handled herself beautifully and professionally. No wonder she has legendary status, and this old lech doesn't ring one bell.
I very much enjoyed this interview split into 2 parts. To me, she sounds quite subversive and subversive people almost always seem difficult or rude to those who don't understand their stance or agree with their views. Personally, I think she makes amazing points about acting iconic roles, Playboy, film nudity, cultural labels and assumptions about the supposed disconnect between talent and female physical beauty. She sounds insightful, strong, forthright and intelligent. She's my heroine.
Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens. Following her debut in Lasse Maja (1941), she made quite an impact in the terminally dark Ingmar Bergman-written film Torment (1944) [known as Torment in the US and Frenzy in the UK], who went on to direct her in his Music in Darkness (1948) [Music in Darkness]. The international attention she received from her Bergman association led her to England where she debuted in the title role of Frieda (1947), a war drama co-starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Flora Robson. Developing modest sex symbol success, she went on to co-star opposite a number of handsome leading men throughout the post-war years in primarily dramatic works, including Dennis Price in The Bad Lord Byron (1949), Dirk Bogarde in Blackmailed (1951), Herbert Lom in The Ringer (1952), Richard Widmark in A Prize of Gold (1955), Tyrone Power in Abandon Ship (1957) (which was a variation on Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944)), John Gregson in Faces in the Dark (1960), William Sylvester in The Devil Inside (1961), and Stanley Baker in The Man Who Finally Died (1963). Along the way she proved just as adaptable and sexy in smart comedy when she came between husband and wife Peter Sellers and Virginia Maskell in Only Two Can Play (1962). Mai abandoned acting in the mid-1960s and courted some controversy when she successfully began sitting in the director's chair. Divorced from Norwegian actor Tutte Lemkow in the early 1950s, she later wed writer David Hughes in 1958, who collaborated with her on a number of her directing ventures, which seemed ahead of their time. Obviously influenced by Bergman, the dark, sexy drama Loving Couples (1964) [Loving Couples] dealt with homosexual themes and featured nudity; Nattlek (1966) [Night Games] revolved around sexual decadency and repression; and The Girls (1968) [The Girls], which had an all-star Swedish cast including Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson, expounded on women's liberation. She divorced her second husband in 1979. She had two children, Louis and Etienne, from her first marriage. Toward the end of her life, Mai made a return to film acting and is best remembered at this late stage for her nurturing and resilient grandmother in the film The Witches (1990) wherein she is forced to tangle with a particularly virulent ringleader Anjelica Huston to save her grandson from her coven of hags. Mai died of cancer in 1994
+Roasannasfriend I'm under the impression that her sneezing is a sign to cancel the rest of the interview. She mentioned sneezing in an "awful radio interview" previously, hinting at this being an awful interview.. Then right after that he was about to say he'll give her a "moment" to compose herself but then quickly took back that statement and said that was the end of the interview. I'd imagine when she sneezed they started telling him in the mic or giving hand signals to end the interview.
@@jordanious7711 I may be wrong, but I think she forgot the question, told him so, apologized by saying it wasn't by intent, asked him to repeat it, & he couldn't becuz he'd forgotten it also.
I can often tell who the women who are over important self appraising hicks that believe they can get by in life be simply being attractive. Usually called Feminists.
I haven´t had the chance to meet her in person, but for the times I´ve seen acting her, I can say she´s one of the sexist woman on screen. I love this woman.
funny how, at 02:58, as she chuckles she begins to nudge her right shoulder ever so slightly until, at 04:37, she nudges it just after saying "the thing about being naked" and, at 4:44 says "and everyone else has their clothes on" she has shaken her dress-strap off completely. Great bit of acting there.
In these videos, it feels as though Parkinson is being the 'voice' of all of the people who are giving her shit and questioning her acting ability. While he is absolutely asking her horrid things, he's also giving her a chance to speak about it and elaborate without undercutting what she's saying. Its bizarre because if you saw this same type of interview now, not only would they ask the actress things like that but also interrupt her to steer the conversation back to sex. He asks a set of pre-planned questions that were more than likely put up to him based on critical response to Mirren. Yes, this interview is sexist, but I don't feel that its sexist in the way that most people think it is. Even in the beginning of the first part, Parkinson talks about what other people think and what other people call her. While she should not have to be asked questions like that, especially in her first interview, I do think this may have helped her, because this interview could have actually shut down her critics as well.
I agree with you. He's playing a role, and Helen's in on the act. She knows what the public says about her, and it's his job to ask questions on their behalf. In the comments for an Oprah interview with Drew and Jade Barrymore, people were saying that Oprah was being rude in asking the questions she was posing, and the commenters also took issue with her tone. I could see that Oprah was simply there as the mouthpiece for the public, knowing what the masses wanted to know. That's what she does. She asks the tough questions, and the interview subjects also know that it's not personal. There's a whole pre-interview process, and I'm sure they discuss these things, beforehand.
I find myself disagreeing with nearly all the comments here. Parkinson is no different here than he was with any other of his guests - yes, he flirts a little - but she flirts back - and it is all in fun - whilst Mirren comes over as a rather pompous and affected act-tooooooooorrrrr . She seems fairly normal these days but I'll bet she was insufferable back then.
But the way she ends up using it to her advantage in this segment is awesome. She doesn't come off angry at all, but puts him on the spot in pretty short order by turning it around and making it about HIS sexuality. And he falls for it because he wants to impress her. She exposes him for the nervous boy he is without even trying.
I had never seen HM young. My God she oozes sexuality and is also highly intelligent, beautiful, articulate the very definition of the quintessential English Rose. Just WOW !
She had him for lunch. An articulate, intelligent, marvelous actress who is also quite beautiful. Completely destroyed his creepy gotcha questions. She is a treasure and may she long continue to captivate us with her work. I wish when he said “let’s talk about nudity” she’d replied “mine or yours”!
Lots of comments here speak as if this interview is awkward, complex, and full of subtle devious undertones. I watched it and only saw a straightforward TV interview, conducted by a fellow who showed genuine respect for his guest. The questions were typical, and quite expected, considering her background at that point. Ms. Mirren was very comfortable and natural throughout. She never once displayed any irritation, and didn't give a single answer that was pointy, or snarky. Maybe other people have watched this interviewer before, and have seen him display sexist ideas while speaking to other people, but this is the first time I've seen him, and I didn't see anything like that here. The facts are pretty simple, she had performed in the nude before, and even posed for a porn magazine. Those are items the audience are almost certainly aware of about her, and they expect him to ask her about it. She is a skilled actress, but she is also very attractive and has taken advantage of her looks to get roles. There is nothing new or unusual about that, who would go to a movie with nothing but ugly women starring in it? Everybody knows that us in the audience insist on seeing beautiful people in films. Those beautiful people are paid very well for being attractive. Part of the job of a person with a public life is to agree to be asked rather personal questions on television. If she were unnerved by the questions, she would have been even more uneasy about doing the things that spawned the questions in the first place. She probably would not have done them. It looks like she had been fairly comfortable with doing those things and she answered the questions without hesitation, and gave thoughtful, and charming responses. She expressed that she was not comfortable with being naked on a movie set, but said it would be different if all the crew were naked too. She also described Playboy as being the worst of the porn magazines, which makes me thing that in hindsight, she did regret posing for them. Regardless of that, she has enjoyed a long career, and has maintained a delightful appearance even into her current age. The first thing I'd ever saw her in, she was in her 60's, and I thought she was an attractive woman then. I looked her up and found out she had done many pictures going back a long time, and had been a very attractive woman when she was younger.
I'm not British so this is the first time I've seen this host and his show but he was talking down to her and she is evidently an intelligent talented lady. There was no need to be a prick to make an interesting interview.
I recently saw both Helen Mirren an Michael Parkinson talk of this encounter. They both agreed that they were much younger and perhaps a bit sillier then than they are now. It shows!
he's not being sexist. In fact Helen Mirren was at the time considered a sex symbol, which incidentally can be empowering as well as condescending, and Parkinson would have been failing as an interviewer had he not questioned her about her view on the matter. As is obvious from her answers, Mirren saw her image as a fairly boring subject but the fact that he got her opinion, honestly, out of her is in itself evidence of parkinson's excellent interviewing skills.
I'm not drawing any conclusions from my observations, but Helen's right dress strap starts to slide down her arm as she starts talking (at 4:03) about comfortable nakedness: swimming with her friends in Jamaica. She wiggles and shifts and her bracelets clink... and whilst stroking a feather and talking about porn vs. erotica (at 4:33) her strap descends further. She *sneezes* (at 6:40) and the strap is almost at her elbow - with plenty of ummm... side-boob profiling camerawork. I like her punk-rock attitude to the then-given aesthetics of her profession... We were all majorly discontented in mid-70's Britain.
There's no "destroying" here. There were moments of slight awkwardness from sensitive questions, but WTF are people saying he's a major chauvinist and she "destroyed" him?
Oh my god! I have never seen a Lady in my life who can control her body language, her voice, even controlling where to drop her dress’s shoulder, up skirt, that sneeze as soon as she decided not to answer that coming question she made everyone believe her that she was right to not to follow question. And that coming “what”... also those speeces about being naked alone in crowd. Too bad for that poor guy he was far away from to understand what she was talking about. I really admired...
My take on this interview is Helen Mirren tried in vein to answer his impertinent questions but Parky wasnt having any of it only to ask more dumb questions what a rude man who by the way never puts his male guest in the same position of questioning.
I had not seen many interviews with hellen mirren before this, and i came here from the related column of a recent late night talkshow interview with her. While i found her gracious, intelligent, and funny there, she shows much more of those things here, and this was back in 1975 (well before i was born). Seeing her personality and oppinions here just gave me a huge amount of respect for her, and i would think she has only expanded upon her freethought the last 36 years. I'm too a freethinker :)
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I love how she just casually calls him a chauvinist in an elegant way
You mean just after she stroked his knee? What would you have said if he touched her knee like that. Double standards?
Everyone in this thread is wrong
Id like to think that women do that cause they know that it makes men think/feel a certain way. I do that not to be slutty but to prove how easy men are and how shallow their mind is.
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That was not stroking and it was not done to flirt ,it was incidental contact
@@timphillips9954you have to understand the age in which this was, sexism in society towards women was rife and a very male chauvinist world. I think she handled this really well as did Parky. Nothing bad to see here it’s a good interview
Helen is more mature, cultured, self-assured, and charming than the interviewer at her young age and makes Parkinson look like a pretentious prune in a suit. What an absolute delight. No wonder she is so loved to this day.
She was 30.
@@jenjones90 still young
Is 30 considered old? Cause that means 50 is ancient and 100 is pure dust
@@princessedelu 100% childfree. ? Why does everything today have to be agenda driven, and associated and connected to the extermination of life ?
@@jenjones90 Ancient...
love her voice
echolot Of course the English accent always adds to it.
She oozes class AND sexuality. What a woman
When you're finally having a good time and all of a sudden he says, "Let's talk about nudity." YUCK...
Well it was part of what she was....she needed to own it.
Exactly!
What's "yucky" about talking about what she did for a living? (Nudity was an important aspect of her career back then.)
I love how her dress strap fell down and she didn't give a crap.
Carrie Maxwell seemed a bit attention seeking tbh
Lydia K - stop being like this. ugh
she probably thought he was going to sort himself out once he got back to his dressing room and she would still be the winner!
It was interesting to watch this. We all expected her to put it back up
@@Chadnmurfreesboro It's no mystery at all, she knew exactly what she was doing, it's only men who thought she'd react?
I love that his sexism doesn't censor her sexuality, or the fact that she is a SEXUAL person. Any other woman would have tried too hard to prove him wrong by acting very non-sexual and insisting in every way possible that she is not just a body....but she didn't resort to that. If she did, she would have been complicit in an all too familiar game set up for many women to lose. She didn't sacrifice her sexuality to prove him wrong, when he was clearly trying to corner her into doing so. He basically tried to shame her. She is sexy and sexual and it's HIS problem if that is all he can see. His loss if he can't comprehend the concurrent existence of her sexuality with her talent and "serious" acting career. What a loser.
Well said OP. Clearly hundreds of people argree with your comments. She was patient, charming, natural but did not fall for Parky's hostility bubbling under his smarmy manner.
handbanana completely agree.
I thought his questions were tasteful as were hers. She is a force of nature.
@@ClayBlasdel44 They were boring questions, as she rightly pointed out. All that focus on her "equipment"? Prudish and licentious at the same time. "Just spit it out," she said, calling him on just that: prudish, silly questions.
Well said handbanana.
she's magnificent isn't she.
+Gary McCaffrey oh my goodness she is marvellous!!!
yes.....yes.......yes, she is. yes.
I concur
Her sensuality is off the charts, when her strap drop off her shoulder she didn't even bat an eye. This woman is not afraid of aging, she gets better with time. Class!
"This woman is not afraid of aging, she get better with time. Class!"
Now they have got her playing the Queen - all the time!
@adam smith My Goodness, I don't think I stated anywhere that showing skin is classy. If your taking the time to nit pick about my tongue and cheek, dumb ass comments, about this terrific actress. You have way too much time on your hands. FYI, take a look at Helen Mirren in Caligula.
@adam smith offended by how eloquent she is???
you really had to twist that fairly clear Max Fernandez comment
Remember she's half-Russian.
Video should be retitled, Mirren plays Parkinson like a puppet.
In P1 Parkinson was trying to establish his dominance and following successive failures he escalated with his language, tone and body posture, until Mirren let him think he'd won that's why in P2 he calmed down a little.
Mirren was toying with him throughout the interview, it was like watching an adult handle a toddler. I dont know much about Mirren but from this young age she's shown a great deal of intelligence.
That comment about men in leather jackets and men in sharp suites completely flew over Parkinson's head, insulted him right to his face and he had no idea what she was talking about, absolutely loved it.
She did a nice job of trolling him at the end of the interview. She took control in a way.
@cordellwinder8122 Although I was shocked to see Parky ask such questions, I imagine like today, this interview was well planned in advance and both were aware of the need for viewing figures. And dealing with controversial topics - which really are boring - that the masses would click on until today boosted both of their popularity! She did deal with them remarkably well though. And I completely agree with her about education.
I’ve always loved Helen Mirren. He acting and the way she carries herself. Seeing this interview made my respect for her just soar.
33 years later, and she still shines as a great actress, and still possesses a modest sensuality and beauty.
I think you meant 38 years later. She still has all those qualities today 48 years later as well.
Still a talentless diva.
"ok, now let's talk about NUDITY..." wow dude.. great segway into that one
@crazyclive A Segway are those things 2 wheel scooter things.
And then he unbuttoned his suit coat....
She has a fabulous natural beauty inside and out... Big fan.
She's stunning as Morgana in Excalibur.
Flirting and destroying at the same time. Love it.
When she insinuates he's a chauvinist check out the swallow he does and the intense but muted hiding of his derision in being called out so beautifully.
Parkinson came over as an utter arse-hole here and Helen Mirren had SUCH natural dignity. I do hope that he looks at this video and cringes. I'm pleased that he improved as time went by (Helen didn't need to... but did too).
I doubt he has enough self reflection to get it.
David Topchiev and today she is one of the best english actreses, very much respected, and new generations know interantionally who she is while no one knows who t f that guy is today
David Topchiev I've seen you copy/paste this same reply all over this video. Did Dame Helen Mirren kick your dog or something?
David Topchiev actually she is being considered a great actress for the last 50 years. Why don't you get a little bit of culture before spliting out an opinion? Do you know what i find ironic? Men who talk with such an umbelievable voulgarity as you do and think they can tell what is class. Men that still think, in 2017, that sexuality in women is something dirty to be ashemed of. But of course, they don't usually feel ashemed about their own sexuality. At the contrary. This i find ironic.
Blade56762 Party was an arsehole then and is still an arsehole but she is no Streep
hahaha helen mirren, pure unadulterated grace and consistency.
This is one of the sexiest women I think I’ve ever seen. She doesn’t try to be, she just is. She is still a beautiful lady today as well as her younger years. A classic looking woman!
I love this woman! She has such an amazing outlook on everything.
WOW
Wonderful interview with one of the most attractive & talented female actresses of all time & she is still going & improving in her art now.
Totally agree with Eric Lord!!!!
From a 72yo Aussie fan.
The sneeze and the confused query masterfully broke his cadence on the question she didn't want to answer and he knew it. He beat off into his sock after this interview.
when?
What a class act. Amazing lady.
I really agree with her about Playboy. Helps no ones career too.
Playboy is weaksauce though... even before it went PG-13.
I worked at the NPG in London for 30 years. 11 years ago at an evening function one
of my colleagues spent almost the entire evening talking to Helen. You could say I
was a tad jealous.
This lady is a talented actor and obviously very clever with it.
A pleasure to watch even now.
Parkinson was as subtle as an air raid.
There are so many things that are very sultry about Helen vs other women (to me at least). Her reserved personality, subtle voice, smile, laughter and wit compound her natural physical beauty. You can sense her delicate inner strength and independence..that enhances her appeal even more. A rare flower.
"do your 'attributes' prevent you from being a 'serious' actress" he asked of the woman about to open as Lady Macbeth on the London stage.
Helen oozes class.
Gawd I can't tell if it's British humor or not but this guy is stone cold and pompous. I have to say though I like that she's proud of her sexuality rather than glossing over it or making it either good or bad. I also agree with her on porn. It's kind of ashame so many people either gloss over it like it's great or it's bad when it's just business and a very exploitive one at that. She handles herself well especially given that this is obviously uncut and to a great extent unscripted.
That's his interview style; it's what he does. The "British stiff upper lip". Don't worry, it wasn't just you not getting it. :) He's just... kind of shit. I might grt hung, drawn and quartered for that, but I'm not a fan of his at all.
Oh. That's British humor 100%. They're very passive aggressive (sorry to any Brits). Saying catty things, in a "casual" manner, to hide the fact that they're trying so hard to entertain, but also look in control, and dominant, in case the response isn't as they expect.
It's not British humour. The young Parkinson was taking advantage of a younger woman. I thought she stood up to him.
Bob, You're right and wrong I think. The stone cold pomposity mentioned above is fairly typical dry British humour and wit. That said he did indeed try to take advantage of her with good old 70s sexism. She did stand up to it very well. Helen Mirren was/is a class act.
@Bob Irvine It's called 'flirting'. Maybe you heard about it from your grandparents. It's something of a distant past when it was still allowed and fun. Besides, she LOVED it. Of course she didn't noticed for one moment at all her dress strap was down, surely. Her body language tells that she want to fuck him. if you can't see that you are far gone.
''Let's talk about nudity'' fuck me that escalated quick >_>
She's being so nice... Amazing character.
I had no idea of how gorgeous Helen Mirren was back in those years.
She was almost 30 here. 10 years earlier she looked even better than this.
Wow - she really owns him doesn't she!
@Cordell Winder yes she did
if yr breaking it down as a competition; which his focus tends to turn it into...
we could say in fairness that
she's had more practice dealing with men as narrowly focused as he is in this interview
than he's had dealing with women who field it as smoothly unembarrassed & accurately & eloquently to the point as she does.
we could also say in fairness that if viewed as a competition ... she owns him while he's trying to compete & she's not
What a classy lady! Honest, intelligent, polite Wish more women were like her.
Being able to handle or manipulate the conversation doesn't mean the host didn't pointedly direct the interview toward her physical attributes and sex appeal and repressed childhood (code words for daddy issues). She handled herself beautifully and professionally. No wonder she has legendary status, and this old lech doesn't ring one bell.
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I very much enjoyed this interview split into 2 parts. To me, she sounds quite subversive and subversive people almost always seem difficult or rude to those who don't understand their stance or agree with their views.
Personally, I think she makes amazing points about acting iconic roles, Playboy, film nudity, cultural labels and assumptions about the supposed disconnect between talent and female physical beauty.
She sounds insightful, strong, forthright and intelligent. She's my heroine.
Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens. Following her debut in Lasse Maja (1941), she made quite an impact in the terminally dark Ingmar Bergman-written film Torment (1944) [known as Torment in the US and Frenzy in the UK], who went on to direct her in his Music in Darkness (1948) [Music in Darkness].
The international attention she received from her Bergman association led her to England where she debuted in the title role of Frieda (1947), a war drama co-starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Flora Robson. Developing modest sex symbol success, she went on to co-star opposite a number of handsome leading men throughout the post-war years in primarily dramatic works, including Dennis Price in The Bad Lord Byron (1949), Dirk Bogarde in Blackmailed (1951), Herbert Lom in The Ringer (1952), Richard Widmark in A Prize of Gold (1955), Tyrone Power in Abandon Ship (1957) (which was a variation on Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944)), John Gregson in Faces in the Dark (1960), William Sylvester in The Devil Inside (1961), and Stanley Baker in The Man Who Finally Died (1963). Along the way she proved just as adaptable and sexy in smart comedy when she came between husband and wife Peter Sellers and Virginia Maskell in Only Two Can Play (1962).
Mai abandoned acting in the mid-1960s and courted some controversy when she successfully began sitting in the director's chair. Divorced from Norwegian actor Tutte Lemkow in the early 1950s, she later wed writer David Hughes in 1958, who collaborated with her on a number of her directing ventures, which seemed ahead of their time. Obviously influenced by Bergman, the dark, sexy drama Loving Couples (1964) [Loving Couples] dealt with homosexual themes and featured nudity; Nattlek (1966) [Night Games] revolved around sexual decadency and repression; and The Girls (1968) [The Girls], which had an all-star Swedish cast including Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson, expounded on women's liberation. She divorced her second husband in 1979. She had two children, Louis and Etienne, from her first marriage.
Toward the end of her life, Mai made a return to film acting and is best remembered at this late stage for her nurturing and resilient grandmother in the film The Witches (1990) wherein she is forced to tangle with a particularly virulent ringleader Anjelica Huston to save her grandson from her coven of hags. Mai died of cancer in 1994
she's a very honest person!
Thank you very much for uploading! Wonderful interview. Gotta love her
Thank you, beautiful Helenn Mirren ♥️
Well said !!!
Parky's face at 3.55 when she mentioned male chauvinist. Classic.
A brilliant and beautiful woman speaking softly yet directly-there’s nothing more powerful in the world-you can hear a pin drop.
What a charming woman. Strong minded, sexually confident but with the grace of a lady.
I knew she'd lose track of his question at the end as soon as she sneezed . I don't know why he overreacted
Exactly! I didn't even sneeze and I completely forgot what he was asking myself. I had to rewind and piece it back together.
+Roasannasfriend I'm under the impression that her sneezing is a sign to cancel the rest of the interview. She mentioned sneezing in an "awful radio interview" previously, hinting at this being an awful interview.. Then right after that he was about to say he'll give her a "moment" to compose herself but then quickly took back that statement and said that was the end of the interview. I'd imagine when she sneezed they started telling him in the mic or giving hand signals to end the interview.
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I may be wrong, but
I think she forgot the question, told him so, apologized by saying it wasn't by intent, asked him to repeat it, & he couldn't becuz he'd forgotten it also.
Great interview. Compelling and provocative. A little tension makes the conversation more interesting. I
I can often tell who the men who are luckless with women are by the comments they leave on videos of attractive women. I see some here. Tsk, tsk.
That's for sure..King Kenny just sounds bitter and twisted at how his life turned out.
I can often tell who the women who are over important self appraising hicks that believe they can get by in life be simply being attractive. Usually called Feminists.
Attractive?. She was ok, but more in the plain Jane category for me.
taos treror Actually the feminists are historically mannish.
Brooke Hanley Like Pankhurst, Davison, Steinem, Wolf tyes really 'manish' . They made Megan fox look manly
she is by far quicker than parkinson but he continues to see her a sex object
vicky leigh She and all women like compliments to their physical attributes.
@@brookehanley3659 but not the implication that those physical attributes are all she’s worth.
@@breannachandler3101 In her younger years earlier in her career she played sexy.
She's so professional, a treasure
She made him look like Alan Partridge at 2:00 - just like an Alan sketch "i DO wear a leather jacket!". It's like a Steve Coogan line.
The epitome of class and elegance.
James Machalik she’s a classy woman💕
I haven´t had the chance to meet her in person, but for the times I´ve seen acting her, I can say she´s one of the sexist woman on screen. I love this woman.
bet he regretted not wearing that leather jacket.
wow, she was always fabulous!
Lovely interview! Very smart and charming young woman
1:50 i can't get enough of how smart that comment she made there that she made him lose his confidence for a bit.
funny how, at 02:58, as she chuckles she begins to nudge her right shoulder ever so slightly until, at 04:37, she nudges it just after saying "the thing about being naked" and, at 4:44 says "and everyone else has their clothes on" she has shaken her dress-strap off completely. Great bit of acting there.
I like this era with lovely and free thinking ladies like Helen Mirren and Kate Bush. They were outspoken in a sweet and sincere way.
She’s incredible…so classy and a great laugh.
Whoa, I thought dinosaurs had been extinct long before 1975, and didn't know some of them were hosting talk shows...
This doesn't feel like an interview, it feels like a sterile interrogation...
In these videos, it feels as though Parkinson is being the 'voice' of all of the people who are giving her shit and questioning her acting ability. While he is absolutely asking her horrid things, he's also giving her a chance to speak about it and elaborate without undercutting what she's saying.
Its bizarre because if you saw this same type of interview now, not only would they ask the actress things like that but also interrupt her to steer the conversation back to sex. He asks a set of pre-planned questions that were more than likely put up to him based on critical response to Mirren.
Yes, this interview is sexist, but I don't feel that its sexist in the way that most people think it is. Even in the beginning of the first part, Parkinson talks about what other people think and what other people call her. While she should not have to be asked questions like that, especially in her first interview, I do think this may have helped her, because this interview could have actually shut down her critics as well.
Sexist? How?
I agree with you. He's playing a role, and Helen's in on the act. She knows what the public says about her, and it's his job to ask questions on their behalf. In the comments for an Oprah interview with Drew and Jade Barrymore, people were saying that Oprah was being rude in asking the questions she was posing, and the commenters also took issue with her tone. I could see that Oprah was simply there as the mouthpiece for the public, knowing what the masses wanted to know. That's what she does. She asks the tough questions, and the interview subjects also know that it's not personal. There's a whole pre-interview process, and I'm sure they discuss these things, beforehand.
Not sure the moment he stared at her boobs was as a result of him taking an objective tone
The bit at the end was Parky just asking a stupid question, he made it out that it was Mirren’s fault for being awkward. Naughty Parky.
WOW what an amazingly beautiful looking and a very intelligent and funny HELEM MIRREN ;; and she still is to this day ❤️❤️❤️
One of my fav actors...... Gorgeous too and original xx
I find myself disagreeing with nearly all the comments here. Parkinson is no different here than he was with any other of his guests - yes, he flirts a little - but she flirts back - and it is all in fun - whilst Mirren comes over as a rather pompous and affected act-tooooooooorrrrr . She seems fairly normal these days but I'll bet she was insufferable back then.
i agree
Annie! What to say! THANK YOU again! I know,it is getting usual,but I must say again- you are a treasure!
But the way she ends up using it to her advantage in this segment is awesome. She doesn't come off angry at all, but puts him on the spot in pretty short order by turning it around and making it about HIS sexuality. And he falls for it because he wants to impress her. She exposes him for the nervous boy he is without even trying.
Hi Pauline hope you're okay?
I had never seen HM young. My God she oozes sexuality and is also highly intelligent, beautiful, articulate the very definition of the quintessential English Rose. Just WOW !
I like how she subtly pulled her dress up to reveal a bit more leg .. Very clever lady
My God what a performance Helen.
Smart,magnificent and beautiful Hellen Mirren,she play him like a puppet
Like an hysterical bitch that she was.
manipulaive and hysterical...
She had him for lunch. An articulate, intelligent, marvelous actress who is also quite beautiful. Completely destroyed his creepy gotcha questions. She is a treasure and may she long continue to captivate us with her work. I wish when he said “let’s talk about nudity” she’d replied “mine or yours”!
Lots of comments here speak as if this interview is awkward, complex, and full of subtle devious undertones. I watched it and only saw a straightforward TV interview, conducted by a fellow who showed genuine respect for his guest. The questions were typical, and quite expected, considering her background at that point. Ms. Mirren was very comfortable and natural throughout. She never once displayed any irritation, and didn't give a single answer that was pointy, or snarky. Maybe other people have watched this interviewer before, and have seen him display sexist ideas while speaking to other people, but this is the first time I've seen him, and I didn't see anything like that here. The facts are pretty simple, she had performed in the nude before, and even posed for a porn magazine. Those are items the audience are almost certainly aware of about her, and they expect him to ask her about it. She is a skilled actress, but she is also very attractive and has taken advantage of her looks to get roles. There is nothing new or unusual about that, who would go to a movie with nothing but ugly women starring in it? Everybody knows that us in the audience insist on seeing beautiful people in films. Those beautiful people are paid very well for being attractive. Part of the job of a person with a public life is to agree to be asked rather personal questions on television. If she were unnerved by the questions, she would have been even more uneasy about doing the things that spawned the questions in the first place. She probably would not have done them. It looks like she had been fairly comfortable with doing those things and she answered the questions without hesitation, and gave thoughtful, and charming responses. She expressed that she was not comfortable with being naked on a movie set, but said it would be different if all the crew were naked too. She also described Playboy as being the worst of the porn magazines, which makes me thing that in hindsight, she did regret posing for them. Regardless of that, she has enjoyed a long career, and has maintained a delightful appearance even into her current age. The first thing I'd ever saw her in, she was in her 60's, and I thought she was an attractive woman then. I looked her up and found out she had done many pictures going back a long time, and had been a very attractive woman when she was younger.
I'm not British so this is the first time I've seen this host and his show but he was talking down to her and she is evidently an intelligent talented lady. There was no need to be a prick to make an interesting interview.
I guarantee he pulled his wire within 10 minutes of that interview.
Helen Mirren showed her true class and grace in how she responded to Parkie's sexist prodding.
Sluty? She is a lovely articulate and educated woman! And she absolute slashed him!
“Let’s talk about nudity”. I fucking lost it 😂😂😂😂prick.
She has gotten even more attractive with age.
I cannot imagine this interviewer's show being around long enough for there to be a second interview.
I love her soft, feminine laugh
I recently saw both Helen Mirren an Michael Parkinson talk of this encounter. They both agreed that they were much younger and perhaps a bit sillier then than they are now. It shows!
This was many years ago,Liberals you need to remember that,not a 2015,interview.
... still up to now she is absolutely unique and magnificent ... ☆
he's not being sexist. In fact Helen Mirren was at the time considered a sex symbol, which incidentally can be empowering as well as condescending, and Parkinson would have been failing as an interviewer had he not questioned her about her view on the matter. As is obvious from her answers, Mirren saw her image as a fairly boring subject but the fact that he got her opinion, honestly, out of her is in itself evidence of parkinson's excellent interviewing skills.
Such a huge difference between this interview and the recent one. Even though I'm in Mirren's corner always, time was good to both of them.
"You look like a tall wallet", Eric Morecambe was a genius!!!
I admire her for not storming off in a rage during this interview.
I'm not drawing any conclusions from my observations, but Helen's right dress strap starts to slide down her arm as she starts talking (at 4:03) about comfortable nakedness: swimming with her friends in Jamaica. She wiggles and shifts and her bracelets clink... and whilst stroking a feather and talking about porn vs. erotica (at 4:33) her strap descends further. She *sneezes* (at 6:40) and the strap is almost at her elbow - with plenty of ummm... side-boob profiling camerawork. I like her punk-rock attitude to the then-given aesthetics of her profession... We were all majorly discontented in mid-70's Britain.
Her sensuality, confidence and intelligence is off the chart !
The Force is strong with her.
This is the first time I've seen Helen as a young woman. She's gorgeous, but then again we all used to be back then. She still is.
There's no "destroying" here. There were moments of slight awkwardness from sensitive questions, but WTF are people saying he's a major chauvinist and she "destroyed" him?
Thanx beretsherri0001 for uploading this bit of necessary history.
Oh my god! I have never seen a Lady in my life who can control her body language, her voice, even controlling where to drop her dress’s shoulder, up skirt, that sneeze as soon as she decided not to answer that coming question she made everyone believe her that she was right to not to follow question. And that coming “what”... also those speeces about being naked alone in crowd. Too bad for that poor guy he was far away from to understand what she was talking about. I really admired...
Ever since I saw her was in King Arthur and I've been in love ever since. She is so awesome.
My take on this interview is Helen Mirren tried in vein to answer his impertinent questions but Parky wasnt having any of it only to ask more dumb questions what a rude man who by the way never puts his male guest in the same position of questioning.
I had not seen many interviews with hellen mirren before this, and i came here from the related column of a recent late night talkshow interview with her. While i found her gracious, intelligent, and funny there, she shows much more of those things here, and this was back in 1975 (well before i was born). Seeing her personality and oppinions here just gave me a huge amount of respect for her, and i would think she has only expanded upon her freethought the last 36 years.
I'm too a freethinker :)