Mirren loves #MeToo, women for ‘taking control’
Oscar-winning actor Helen Mirren has praised the #MeToo generation of young women for taking control of their destiny and refusing to accept inequality.
The #MeToo movement began in 2017 in the United States as a response to accusations of sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood and emboldened women around the world to recount their experiences of being verbally abused, groped, molested or raped.
“Why did #MeToo happen? Something cracked,” said Mirren said in an interview with British magazine Radio Times. She added, “Something went, and I absolutely love that a young generation of women just won’t accept it.”
Mirren, 74, won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the film, The Queen. Besides the Oscars, she has received several accolades during a career spanning five decades. “I see young women around me taking control of their own destiny. Writing their own material, creating their own theatre groups or making their own movies, that lovely assumption that it’s possible, and that they can do it...,” said Mirren, who was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 3002.
Meanwhile, on questions of gender self-identification, a topic that has been getting discussed all across for some times now, Mirren said that she doesn’t believe there is such thing as “binary sexuality”. Some people identify themselves as trans or non-binary. She said, “We’re all somewhere in the middle in a wonderful mix of male and female.”