Becoming CATHERINE
Oct 25, 2019
4 minutes
Most actresses baulk at filming sex scenes. Not Helen Mirren – the wickedly funny 74-year-old English Dame found herself bedding not one, but two men in her titular role as Catherine the Great.
“I loved every minute of it,” Mirren reveals with a chuckle. “Catherine was a serial monogamist and one of her lines was: ‘I’m in love with love.’ She was a woman who always wanted to have a man but she didn’t want to relinquish power. She loved sex and she loved a sexual relationship but when she wanted to get rid of them after, she’d give them palaces or something. She even gave one guy [Stanisław August
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