Dame Helen Mirren says it’s sad Kurt Cobain died young because he would have loved “wonderful” GPS.
Mirren made the claim in a new interview while discussing ageing in the public eye, a process which she says she is embracing.
Mirren explained, “I’m 79. I never thought I’d be 79. And then you say, okay, well, this is it. This is what 79 is, you know. And it’s kind of okay. It’s not brilliant. But it wasn’t that brilliant to be 25 either. So it’s not a question of seeking youth at all. It’s a question of living the life you have as fully and positively and enjoyably and confusingly and everything that it was when you were younger. It’s just called life.”
Mirren also said she considered herself “lucky” to reach old age as she referred to the deaths of people who have died in their youth.
Mirren said she wished Nirvana musician Cobain for example, could have seen the invention of satellite navigation.
She quipped, “I always say it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw GPS as it’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable.”