Helen Mirren on Trumbo, Donald Trump, and the Oscars

Helen Mirren talks to Jon Snow about new film Trumbo, in which she plays the staunchly anti-Soviet gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.

[creamcheese]

Helen Mirren was so great in the movie "Trumbo."

[NYRyder]

The Academy didn't see "Beasts of No Nation" because they didn't want to see a movie about child soldiers, but they had no problem seeing "12 Years a Slave", a movie about slavery.

[grand]

How about we forget about left and right and look at corruption.

[tanyam]

Saying something like this now... Helen is very brave and extremely honest. And reporter's immediate reaction on her words about academy says it all.
Trumbo is very important film now because history repeats itself.

[liefhelm]

'seeing things in such absolute ways and then being utterly convinced that you are completely right.'

Like Jon Snow and Helen Mirren. ;-)

[samb]

I know America is a physically beautiful country but there's nothing on earth that would convince me to travel there in the current climate. Mine is just a lone voice in the wilderness... or do others feel the same?

[Blackmark]

Mirren is smack on with her assessments : Cruz supporters being even more right wing than Trump's, and the danger that American democracy faces in light of the rise of right wing extremism.

[MrYorickJenkins]

Why are actresses called actors these days?

[newworldwebster]

I felt the same way, now we are here and we are working hard to make sure all people are able to exercise their human rights going forward into this and all future administrations.

[stephaniestanley]

And on a Constitutional level what is the difference today in censuring and cancelling people from all venues and the HUAC Committee and all those people that were destroyed because of their ideas and politics.

[nikkicat]

Now I love her even more! Very intelligent lady!

[jaywarrenclark]

The problem is the Republic is already just a name and neither Left nor Right have had the wit or will to do anything about it.
Aren’t you sick of listening to “intelligent” people who can’t see anything higher than this reactionary formula (lens) L v R?
JWC

[Laurencer]

Blimey, she managed to get through the interview without dropping the f-word or making reference to her genitalia. I must admit that I got bored halfway through and muted it. Another one who leads a charmed life with no concept of reality.

[legalamerica]

We tend to mistake an actors age with their talent- She has never been all that good. Another decade and she'll be a genius!

[byculla]

He continues to interrupt her as she's about to say something interesting and highly observant as a Brit in the US . Shame. What's he think he's doing?

[jaywest]

Smart woman. I didn't vote for Ted Cruz because he was too right wing. I did vote for Trump though. Trump is what the world needs right now. We were going too far to the left, to the point where we were putting Western democracy at risk.

[byculla]

Why does this dopey man keep interrupting the Dame? She's enormously intelligent.

[randb]

Wow I didn't know how clueless she is.

[nygrrl]

There are so many ignorant comments here that it’s laughable.

[kyokogodai-Doug]

Listen to this self-righteous asshole interviewer. KISS MY ASS, YOU MARXIST