Parkinson: You are, in quotes, a serious actress [makes air quote fingers] Helen Mirren: In quotes? [...] What do you mean in quotes? How dare you. P… - Michael Parkinson

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Parkinson: You are, in quotes, a serious actress [makes air quote fingers]
Helen Mirren: In quotes? [...] What do you mean in quotes? How dare you.
Parkinson: Serious actress [...] as opposed to an unserious actress.

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Sir Michael Parkinson CBE (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his television talk show Parkinson from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the UK and internationally. He also worked in radio and was described by The Guardian in 2012 as "the great British talkshow host". Parkinson was knighted in 2008.

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Alternative Names: Sir Michael Parkinson
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That's the first talk show I'd ever done. I was terrified. I watched it and I actually thought, bloody hell! I did really well. I was so young and inexperienced. And he was such a f------ sexist old fart. He was. He denies it to this day that it was sexist, but of course he was.
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Parkinson: Do you find it to be fact that, what could be best described as your equipment [...] hinders you in that pursuit [of being considered a serious actress]?
Helen Mirren: I'd like you to explain what you mean by my equipment in greater detail.
Parkinson: Your physical attributes.
Mirren: You mean my fingers?
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