The 74-year-old Helen Mirren has through most of his career has been a sex-symbol, of course, the most in its young years. But when she as 62-year-old tiltbage in the year 2008 appeared in a red bikini during a holiday in Puglia in Italy, was her status as a sex symbol in the degree re-established, even if Helen Mirren had passed the 60 years.

the Picture went quickly around the world in various media and on the internet went the sexy Helen Mirren, of course, completely virally.

Now reveals Helen Mirren opposite the tv station KTLA5 in California the truth behind the famous picture that got people all over the world to block his eyes in admiration.

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The 62-year-old Helen Mirren shocked the entire world in 2008 with his stunning bikini-body. The picture has now gained cult status. (Photo: Shutterstock)

the tv host Sam Rubin explains Helen Mirren, she just tried to look good, as her husband Taylor Hackford wanted to take a quick spontaneous picture of her. And while Taylor Hackford took the picture discovered Helen Mirren blitz-the light from a paparazzi photographer in the background.

– We found ourselves on the beach, we had swum a little and licked the sun. And then said to Taylor: ‘get up. I will take a picture of you’, explains Helen Mirren and hesitates a little.

Then breaks Sam Rubin in and says: You was just about to say ‘sexy’?

So, break out Helen Mirren out in laughter and answers:

– Yes, I was. But no, explains Helen Mirren and continues his report:

– Just as my husband had taken the picture, I saw a flash light up from the hills. And I told my husband that there was a paparazzi in the vicinity.

– He said: ‘No there is not. It is ridiculous. How can there be a photographer there. It is of course absurd. You are paranoid.’

– But of course I had, three days after the picture published’, concludes Helen Mirren about the famous bikini-picture, which has now reached cult status.

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Helen Mirren is an exceptionally beautiful woman. Photo credit: FayesVision/WENN.com)

Helen Mirrens nephew Simon, who works as a scriptwriter, have to the british newspaper The Times talked about his famous aunt’s insistence not to seek the fame:

I begged and asked her to make the whole family to millionaires know to advertise bikinis, then the whole world went bananas over her amazing bikini body. But she answered short and specific: ‘Absolute no’.

– She is not interested in the kind of. And she does not want to brand themselves on the way, explained Helen Mirrens nephew Simon.

But what Helen Mirren thinks, so has the famous picture and the red bikini with her very own life.

Here is Helen Mirren as the 70-year-old in 2015. (Photo: AP)

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