Mirren: Sexy, no selfies

HELEN Mirren has mastered the art of rejecting selfie requests from fans. “Often I take the selfie, but sometimes I say, ‘Thank you so much for asking, but I’m sorry, I can’t right now,’ as if I could in the future,” she told the AARP Magazine editor Robert Love at a luncheon celebrating her cover. But Mirren, 71, adds, “I’m pretty comfortable with it . . .there’s nothing wrong with a stranger coming up to you on the street and saying, ‘I love you!’ It’s fabulous! I find people are actually very, very nice ... There’s no need to ever be extremely rude.” Mirren also dished about being a sex symbol over 70. “I’m not . . . sexy, first of all you have to take the sexual aspect out of it, out of sexy. There’s not a right word for it though really. If you see a painting you love or that speaks to you, you could say, ‘Oh my God, that painting is sexy.’ It doesn’t mean you want to f - - k the painting. I’m so not a sexual object. It’s just something that gets hung up on you, and you can never quite get it off,” she said. Mirren — who won an Oscar for “The Queen” in 2007 — is pushing for “Moonlight” this awards season. “I advise everyone to see ‘Moonlight.’ My co-British actress Naomie Harris, who I think is unbelievable . . . especially knowing who Naomie is . . . very well-educated, beautiful, middle-class, from England, playing this absolute raw performance of an American woman struggling with drugs. It’s amazing . . . it’s incredible, so pay attention to Naomie and the film in general.”