Backstage, Mirren works blue

January 16, 2007 Helen Mirren won the best television actress award for her regal title role in "Elizabeth I," but backstage she was working blue, cracking jokes about what it means to be an Essex girl ("You know when an Essex girl has an orgasm, she drops her fries"). While Mirren was playful in her first win, she was thankful for her second, best actress in a motion picture for The Queen. " "I've been here a few times and sat there at tables loaded with awards and did not have one myself.

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