Helen Mirren recently won a L.A. Fitness “Best Body” poll. Was she aware, asks Vulture? “I couldn’t very well avoid it, could I?” she says. She beat out the likes of Jennifer Lopez, and thinks it’s a beautiful thing: “I think it was recognition of the fact that you don’t have to be perfect.” Mirren’s youthful attitude can’t hurt. She steers clear of cliched older woman characters, preferring “any role that’s proactive.” That means action roles, as with The Debt and RED. “You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner — I’d much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.” And here’s 20 male roles Mirren could have rocked. There’s a remake or two in that list worth pursuing.
The Telegraph profiles Jane Fonda talking about her upcoming book, Prime Time, in which the actress lays out how “Love, Health, Sex, Fitness and Spirit” are the way to happiness. Fonda clarifies that in her relationships with men she’s no longer looking to be validated, that she’s fallen in love “five or six” times, and that she did tons of research for her book because she wanted to know, “am I the only person who is 73 and feeling better than she did when she was 23? Am I unique? And if I’m not how come no one is talking about it?” Telegraph’s Nigel Farndale determines that Fonda, always wanting to be the best at something, has now:
“set herself the task of being the best at being seventy something – looking better than everyone else, feeling fitter, being happier and more in love. And she seems to think these are all things that have to be worked at. Work, work, work. Not play, play, play. Meet the challenge of old age. Feel the burn. It must be exhausting being her.”
You can watch her chatting up Jay Leno (wearing “an endangered species”) below:
[Mirren photo courtesy of New York Magazine]
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