Harrison Ford drops cheeky title for Helen Mirren at Golden Globes
Helen Mirren reflected her 50-year acting career in winning speech of Golden Globe Awards
Harrison Ford drops cheeky title for Helen Mirren at Golden Globes
Harrison Ford gets playful while presenting “badass” Helen Mirren the Golden Globe Awards' Cecil B. DeMille Award.
On Tuesday, January 6, Ford and Mirren were spotted at the Globes' Golden Eve event, which aired later on CBS on Thursday, January 8.
In the aired event, the Indiana Jones star was seen presenting the Oscar-winning actress with the ceremony’s annual honour, described on its website as a "prestigious award for outstanding contributions" to the film and television industries.
"I first met Dame Helen when she played my character's wife in Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast," Ford started his speech, referencing the duo’s 1986 movie together. "We had three lovely children; the script required that all of us refer to Helen as 'mother.'”
Fast forward forty years to their acting together, Ford recalled how he and Mirren got to work again when Taylor Sheridan cast her in 1923.
“I was an afterthought,” he said. “In 1923 she was another kind of mother. The word that comes to mind is not Dame. It's badass. And when she goes full badass, it's awesome to watch."
After receiving the award, Mirren reflected on more than half a century of acting for the screen. The legendary actress remembered that the Globes were "the very first organization in America to give me an award" when she won her first Globe for Losing Chase back in 1997.
Calling the DeMille Award a “career recognition,” Mirren said she prefers seeing it as “a life lived… and carried on,” stressing it was “not writing my own eulogy.” She joked about noting no-shows, recalled childhood inspirations, her 1967 Mustang, and saluted collaborators, including Ford and Reynolds, as well as narrating a Barbie hit.
"So much to wonder at and be very, very grateful for," she closed her speech.
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