Dame Helen Mirren “I’ve Had To Stand My Ground In My Career”
SAY THE WORDS, “I’m worth it” out loud and I defy you not to flick your hair over one shoulder, lift your chin up a fraction and give an imaginary camera your most promising smile. Because as beauty taglines go, L’Oréal Paris’s is the most famous of them all, rising above mere slogan to be part of our everyday lexicon. This year marks the brand’s 50th year of championing and celebrating a woman’s worth and it’s for this anniversary that I’m granted a rare interview with one of the brand’s ambassadors, Dame Helen Mirren.
Speaking to me from her US home in Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, where she lives with her film director husband Taylor Hackford, Mirren’s mind isn’t far from her British roots. “There’s a major lockdown in England, I hear? I talk to my sister frequently and my friends in London. It’s extraordinary.”
The 75-year-old
