The Internet recently had the pleasure of being reminded that Helen Mirren has been shutting down sexism like a total boss dame for decades.
On Saturday (August 20), a video clip from 1975 was posted to Facebook showing a 30-year-old Mirren being interviewed by British talk show host Michael Parkinson — and his questions were abysmally sexist.
"You are in quotes a serious actress," Parkinson began, only to be immediately shut down by Mirren: "In quotes? What do you mean in quotes? How dare you."
Things only got worse from there, as he went on to imply that her breasts — or her "equipment," as he put it — were prohibiting her from having her work being taken seriously. And her take-down (including the line "Because serious actresses can't have big bosoms, is that what you mean?") was on point, especially considering this was her first-ever talk show appearance.
I can’t think that can necessarily be true. I mean what a crummy performance if people are obsessed with the size of your bosoms more than anything else. I would hope that the performance and the play and the living relationship between all the people on the stage and all the people in the audience overcome such boring questions.YAAASS, dame! You tell him!
In honor of Mirren's sheer boss-like brilliance, we've compiled a ranking of her other most priceless woke moments. Here are 11 times Mirren was the feminist hero the world needed.
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