Dame Helen Mirren Says Men Would Expose Themselves To Her Once A Week

Dame Helen Mirren Says Men Would Expose Themselves - To Her Once A Week - Dame Helen Mirren has a message for the Times Up movement: “Time’s up? I would say it’s about time.”

The 72-year-old British actress said she couldn’t directly relate to the countless women abused in Hollywood because by the time she came to Hollywood she was already in her 30s – but she did admit being victim to sexual harassment when she was younger.

“I had never experienced that in Hollywood because I came to Hollywood I was in my 30s, I was too old,” she recalled to Willie Geist in a recent episode of Sunday Today. “It doesn’t happen to you unless you are really young.”

She continued: “When I was between 16 and 23, 24, men would expose themselves to me, often. I would say about once a week. On the subway, on the tube, on the bus, walking down a road. And it’s like, ugh.

“Weird, because it’s not like you’re going to go, ‘Oh my god, that’s the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen.’ It’s the opposite. It’s horror!”

Mirren elaborated on the Time’s Up and Me Too movements, admitting it’s long overdue. “The last four or five months there’s been an enormous shift going on. It’s been coming. I’d say ‘Time’s Up? I would say well it’s about time,’ time’s up, it’s taken a long time to get here.”

Mirren won an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Queen in 2006. She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Elizabeth I. She recently received her eighth Golden Globe film nomination, this time for her role in The Leisure Seeker.