Perpetual thriller

By Stephanie Bunbury
January 5 2013 - 3:00am
Helen Mirren with Toni Collette and Anthony Hopkins in <i>Hitchcock</i>.
Helen Mirren with Toni Collette and Anthony Hopkins in <i>Hitchcock</i>.
Mirren as Alma Reville with Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh.
Mirren as Alma Reville with Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh.

ALL women over 50 have reason to be grateful to Helen Mirren. Of course, those lists of ''world's sexiest women'' and the like are foul in themselves, but the fact they regularly include a 67-year-old actor - especially one who so often embraces roles involving dowdy costumes and a full set of wrinkles - does shift the goalposts. ''She's got a matriarchal authority, but she's very, very sexy,'' said bad-boy comedian Russell Brand, who asked for Mirren to play his butler in the (woeful, actually) remake of Arthur. ''I would happily lay for hours, my head upon her legs, and look at her.''

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