‘I’m running out of bubbles!’: Helen Mirren, 75, narrowly avoids disaster as she playfully does Tonight Show interview in the BATH
Helen Mirren made Tonight Show history on Thursday night as she became the first person to do an interview in the bath.
The actress, 75, urged host Jimmy Fallon to be fast as she playfully joked she was ‘running out of bubbles’.
Helen, who was on the show to talk about her latest film Fast and Furious 9, cut a glamorous figure as she enjoyed the luxurious bubble bath with a mountain of thick foam protecting her modesty.
Hilarious: Helen Mirren made Tonight Show history on Thursday night as she became the first person to do an interview in the bath
As she appeared on screen via a video link, a stunned Jimmy said: ‘Oh my God. you are the absolute… you are the greatest. Oh my God, I love you.’
With a pink palette of make-up and her hair pulled off his face with a headband, Helen said: ‘I’m in my favourite place in the world.’
Fallon then told her: ‘You might be the first guest ever to be in the bathtub on the Tonight Show.’
Oops: The actress, 75, urged host Jimmy Fallon to be fast as she playfully joked she was ‘running out of bubbles’
Hello! Helen, who was on the show to talk about her latest film Fast and Furious 9, cut a glamorous figure as she enjoyed the luxurious bubble bath
To which the Calendar Girls star replied: ‘That’s what’s so brilliant about Zoom. I was thinking, you know: “Why not be in the place you love to sit and chat to people?” I love to chat to my husband while sitting in the bath, so why not do it to the whole of America?’
To which the host said: ‘That’s vert smart. That’s why you’re the best.’
Showing off her playful side, Helen joked: ‘I’m running out of bubbles though, that’s the problem. You’re chatting away and my bubbles are going down.’
Stunned: As she appeared on screen via a video link, a stunned Jimmy said: ‘Oh my God. you are the absolute… you are the greatest. Oh my God, I love you’
Funny: Showing off her playful side, Helen joked: ‘I’m running out of bubbles though, that’s the problem. You’re chatting away and my bubbles are going down’
In the bath: Jimmy promised to do the interview ‘very fast’, to which Helen quipped in a nod to her new film: ‘Yes fast and furious’
Jimmy promised to do the interview ‘very fast’, to which Helen quipped in a nod to her new film: ‘Yes fast and furious’.
Talking about the new film, in which Helen plays criminal mastermind Magdalene Shaw, nicknamed Queenie, the actress revealed she ‘begged, moaned and even cried a little bit’ to star and producer Vin Diesel for a role in the franchise.
Helen also revealed her character Queenie was named after one of her aunts also called Queenie who came from a ‘big east end family with 14 kids’.
Helen said: ‘It was a very old London family and I had an Auntie Queenie. It’s a proper east end name Queenie so I thought that would be a good name for her to have.’
Fast and Furious 9 will arrive in UK cinemas on June 24 and US cinemas on June 25.
Screen icon: Helen plays criminal mastermind Magdalene Shaw, nicknamed Queenie in the latest Fast and Furious film
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