Helen Mirren: Fascination with my age and beauty is boring

Helen Mirren has admitted she finds the “fascination” with her age and beauty regime “boring”.

But the star said she accepts it as “part and parcel” of her job.

Asked how she finds the interest that there is in her age and her beauty regime, she said: “It’s boring. It’s boring.”

Pressed on whether she understands the fascination with it, she replied: “No, I don’t understand your fascination with it. And I don’t think you have. I think you’re saying what your editor told you to say.

“I just take it as part and parcel as my job. And it is.”

Mirren, who won her first Tony Award for her role as the Queen in The Audience last month, said you “don’t lose interest as a woman”, or even as a man, in these things as you get older.

“All we do is we get more knowledge about them,” said Mirren. “We get more knowledge about what’s good for you, what’s bad for you, what works for you, what doesn’t work for you. And so I don’t see why, as an older person, you should be excluded from the fun of all of that.”

Mirren, who also won an Oscar for The Queen, said she does not have a motto for life but is getting less and less rule-bound.

“There are ways of living life... and we impose rules upon ourselves all the time,” she said.

Referring to her appearance in a beauty campaign, she joked: “To do a beauty campaign at my age is a bit sort of out of order really.”