Helen Mirren was honored last week in London with a lifetime achievement award from Women in Film and TV International.  She is now appearing in The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy which will probably get her another Oscar nomination.  The film is in limited release this week to qualify for the Oscars and will reopen in January.  It is a must see.

She took the opportunity of her award to call out for more female directors.  Dame Helen from what I can tell has only once been directed by woman, Julie Taymor in the yet to be released Tempest.

She talked about her early career when there were so few women and how it’s changed but added:

It has not gone nearly far enough… I want to see more women behind the camera.

She also ackowledged that at an event like this (ie mostly women) the best place to network is the bathroom

I was just in the loo… and it was jam-packed with women…They were networking, because you know, we can’t do it on the golf course can we, so we do it in the loo at the Women in Film and Television Awards.

Fucking Awesome.

Mirren’s Female Directors Plea (Press Association)

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