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Helen Mirren Talks Receiving SAG Lifetime Achievement Award
Did you cognize Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson were erstwhile a couple?
In a Nov. 22 interrogation with AARP the Magazine, the Oscar-winning histrion recalled their '80s relationship and the romantic, handmade gift she erstwhile got him.
"All my boyfriends had to person a garment made by me," Mirren said. "I did marque 1 for Liam, oddly enough."
"We loved each other," the 77-year-old continued. "We were not meant to beryllium unneurotic successful that way, but we loved each different very, precise much. I emotion him profoundly to this day. He's specified an astonishing guy."
And the duo person remained close, adjacent appearing together connected BBC's The Graham Norton Show in 1981.
"We lived together," Mirren told big Graham Norton. "We were a superior point for a while."
Neeson, 70, recalled how they met connected the acceptable of the 1981 movie Excalibur, an adaptation of the fable of King Arthur. The histrion played Gawain, a Knight of the Round Table, portion Mirren played the enchantress Morgan le Fay. And when Neeson archetypal saw the actress, portion lasting with person and co-star Ciarán Hinds, he was so enchanted.
"We some went, 'F--k,'" the Taken actor admitted. "I was smitten."
Mirren, sitting adjacent to him arsenic helium told the story, laughed and said, "You've ne'er told maine that before. That's amazing."
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