In the new film "Winchester. The house that spoiled the ghosts "the actress plays a real-life lady-medium, still a legend during her lifetime. Helen Mirren told Telenedelya about non-random accidents and attitudes towards a woman in Hollywood.

I'm scared of acting In the movie "Winchester. "Your heroine communicates with those who are in a different world. Do you feel connected with people who have already left?.

Almost not. My parents were atheists. Mother bequeathed her body to a scientific laboratory, her father was cremated, so that even the graves did not remain. It does not really upset me, they are still alive in my memory, and this is the most important thing.

Do you believe in ghosts?.

Let's just say, I feel the aura of different places: I'm either comfortable there or not. Ghosts, I confess, have never seen. The most weird thing that happened to me is coincidence. Sometimes such that you think: this can not be an accident!.

Can you tell us?.

For a long time there was, for example, such a case. I was walking with my boyfriend in the London area of ??Hampstead. We fooled around, laughed and came upon a container, where various unnecessary things were stacked.

At the top was a green jacket. As I remember it now: green with a dark blue finish, very memorable, my friend liked right away. "Cool," said the friend and pulled the jacket over himself. And he sat like a poured. We went on, and somewhere in an hour we decided to look into the bar, drink a mug of beer.

We found a corner, sat down and saw that some woman was looking at us strangely, she did not take her eyes directly. Then she walked over and said: "I'm sorry that I'm staring at you so much.. The fact is that on your companion jacket of my husband, who died a few months ago. I only recently decided to disassemble his things and got rid of some of them ".

We apologized and told that the jacket was found on the street and we liked it. The woman continues: "This is not all. You are sitting right in front of the picture he painted. ". He was an artist. Can you imagine? It must have been such a thing to happen, and so that she in the same bar at the same time was! After this you do not want to, and you start to think that everything is not just for fun.

Are these moments frightening you?.

Rather cause me rapturous awe.

And what scares you?.

I'm scared of acting as a whole. Many people before going to the stage get bad. Just to nausea - so it's really scary. Before, I was afraid of darkness.

And how did you overcome this fear?.

He himself passed with age. I began to understand how beautiful the night, what a wonderful time of day.

The weapon is a thing of attraction. Your heroine in the tape is the heiress of a business built on blood. And all that is happening to her is the payment for the sins of her family ... Weapons have long become an integral part of American culture - there's nothing you can do about it. In the US, they worship weapons and are ready to sacrifice them. It's terrible that among the victims there are so many children.

Yes, and adults - those who did not get a helping hand on time, and they themselves reduced their lives. Who is to blame for what is happening? I believe, to a greater extent, those who profit from it all - traders who earn huge money on selling weapons to military regimes, dictators, and simply bandits. They are at fault not less than those who shoot.

You have more than once taken up arms in the frame. And with the present to address it was necessary?.

I can use it - I've been trained. Weapons - a thing at the same time magically attractive and frightening. It gives a feeling of inner comfort, almost joy. And it's very scary, especially if you think about how easy it is to kill someone.

You said a sense of joy?.

It is, rather, the joy of achieving the goal: you aim and fall, the gun seems to do everything for you. It seems that it's very easy to shoot, but the result can be terrifying.

Can everyone change Helen, what is it like to be a woman in Hollywood? Especially on the background of scandalous exposures about sexual harassment in the film industry.

The problem is how much time and effort it takes to be inside this very industry. That's really can make any. Of course, gender discrimination exists in Hollywood. And what came out after a series of scandals, only the tip of the iceberg. But I'm very glad that they started talking about this.

Have you ever become the object of harassment?.

To be honest, I do not remember. Maybe, at the time of my youth, it was a matter so common that I just did not pay attention to such. I came to the cinema from the classical theater, where there is no crazy money and fame, they work mainly for the sake of art.

By the time I got to Hollywood, I already had a certain status. Yes, and a young actress, I was not. The only thing that I really had to face every day was the reluctance to recognize my right to my own opinion, as if all women are thoughtless dolls. But now it suddenly turned out that it is not necessary to put up with this, that everything can be changed.

At 72, you look great. And it's not just a compliment. What is your recipe for youth: running, swimming, something else?.

I would say this: do everything little by little, but do not overreact!.