Helen Mirren turns swearing Queen on interrupting drummers
  • 11 years ago
Dame Helen Mirren shocked crowds in London on Saturday when she told a group of drummers, who'd interrupted her matinee of "The Audience", to be quiet using some unbroadcastable language - all the time while dressed as The Queen.

SOUNDBITE (English) Actress, Helen Mirren, saying:

"Well, I was very upset. I was very cross. I just spent 5-10 minutes on stage to allow the audience to hear what I was saying which was impossible, so I was steaming. So I literally walked straight off stage, straight up the stairs and straight out the stage door and they were right here."

The man who shot this video, Chris Dangerfield, added more details to the bizarre scene

SOUNDBITE (English) Comedian, Chris Dangerfield, saying:

"She comes marching out of there real flailing, looking at the arrogance of the woman was incredible. She comes out pushing through people, quite ironically really, because it's a gay bar, it's full of queens and the queen actually came out. And she is