Helen Mirrens husband forced to kiss
Monday,
February
26,
2007
Dame
Helen
Mirren
had
to
force
her
husband
to
give
her
a
kiss
when
she
won
the
Best
Actress
Oscar.
The
61-year-old
actress
won
the
award
for
her
performance
in
'The
Queen'
but
her
director
husband,
Taylor
Hackford,
at
first
wouldn't
give
her
congratulatory
kiss
because
he
didn't
want
to
steal
the
limelight
from
her.
Mirren
said:
"I
had
to
force
my
husband
to
stand
up
and
kiss
me.
At
first
he
didn't
want
to
do
it
because
he
said,
'It's
not
my
moment.'
But
I
told
him
it
was
his
moment
as
well." The
'Calendar
Girls'
star
-
who
has
also
won
a
Best
Actress
Golden
Globe
and
Best
Actress
BAFTA
for
her
role
as
Queen
Elizabeth
II
-
dedicated
her
Oscar
to
the
real
British
monarch.
Holding the gold statuette aloft, she said: "For 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. And I thank her because if it wasn't for her, I most, most certainly would not be here. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen." Later as the couple left the awards ceremony her husband was stopped by an usher who reminded him he needed his ticket to get into the Governor's Ball, the official post-Oscars party. When the usher also reminded Mirren, she waved her Oscar at him, saying: "I don't need a ticket, darling. This is the ticket."
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