I've always liked Helen Mirren, she seems comfortable in her own skin, has grown old gracefully and has never been afraid of nudity. Last week however, she attempted to ingratiate herself with the American audience, on The Letterman Show, by denigrating her own nation. She stated that she was glad that the US beat England in the first round of the World Cup, that BP stood for "bloody p*ss poor" and that the English invented football by kicking heads around!!!
Not only does she need to get her facts straight but she should show a little bit of appreciation and support for our open-minded, tolerant, diverse and interesting multi-cultural country without being embarrassed. Americans are fervently patriotic and plant their Stars and Stripes flags outside their homes with pride. We, however, are told to take down out England flags and not to wear our England shirts in public in the fear that our national pride will be mistaken for racism.
BP hasn't really been a British concern for years; 40% of the shares are American owned and BP dropped it's original title when it merged with two US oil companies around ten years ago. The board of directors are half US citizens and half UK citizens. Moreover this is about a global commercial companies short comings, not a nation's. I sympathise greatly with the plight of the locals, environment and wildlife in that area but greed and the world's reliance on oil is to blame.
As for the football comment, if you want to learn about the true origins of football then read it's history on the Fifa website.
1 comments:
Really dissappointed in Ms Helen Mirren. She appeared to make these snide comments while being totally ill-informed. I agree that it does seem that she thought it would be clever to say such things about Britain, maybe to make the US fall in love with her even more.
An excellent actress. Trained in this country and her first work given to her here. She seems to dislike us yet is not too proud to come back here and take work here when asked.
The cleverest thing for her to do would be for her to think twice before she spouts nasty things about this country.
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