Overview

• Helen Mirren said comments like calling her and husband Taylor Hackford “sweet” for holding hands are condescending and insulting.
• She criticized efforts to resist aging, saying tech billionaires cannot hold back time, and echoed her mother’s advice not to fear getting older.
• Mirren referenced family losses, noting the deaths of her brother Peter and stepson Rio, as context for her views on mortality.
• She told People that beginning any new job remains nerve‑racking because each production is an unknown, adding she often “fakes it” through early insecurities.
• The Thursday Murder Club, directed by Chris Columbus and co‑starring Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie, opened in select theaters Aug. 22 and is set to stream on Netflix Aug. 28.