Helen Mirren has recently reflected on beauty stereotypes in Hollywood.
The iconic British star discussed with several other female celebrities like Keri Russell, Parker Posey, and Kathy Bates for The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable and revealed she was advised to have plastic surgery early in her career.
“I was told to have a nose job in my twenties,” recalled the Barbie actress.
Helen explained, “Someone said, ‘You’ll never get work if you don’t have a nose job.’ I said no. I didn’t want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty.”
The Fast X actress talked about her fellow stars at the roundtable, saying, “Looking at our faces around this table, none of us are beautiful.”
“We’re not. None of us are beauties. We all have really different faces, very interesting faces. We all know what ‘beautiful’ is like,” added Helen.
The White Bird actress previously talked about her casting in biopic Golda about the former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Helen told The Daily Mail that her ethnicity was not part of why she was cast by director Guy Nattiv (who is both Jewish and Israeli).
“I said, ‘Look, Guy, I’m not Jewish, and if you want to think about that, and decide to go in a different direction, no hard feelings. I will absolutely understand,’” stated the Anna actress.
However, Helen remarked, “He very much wanted me to play the role, and off we went.”
Meanwhile, the F9 actress wasn’t the only star in the THR coverage to change her appearance.
Nash-Betts said that she was said “right to my face” in an audition that she had to lose weight.