OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Helen Mirren says the BBC must be “protected” at all costs.
The 76-year-old actress called the broadcasting organisation an “amazing thing” and she “strongly believes” it must be safeguarded amid uncertainty over its funding in the future.
She said: “I strongly believe that the BBC has to be protected … It’s such an amazing thing, especially when you live in a country, like I do in America a lot of the time, which doesn’t have anything like the BBC.”
Helen – whose latest project sees her play Dorothy Bunton in ‘The Duke’ – went on to hit out at “beady-eyed politicians” for “attacking” the organisation following the news that the fee could be scrapped in 2027.
She told Radio Times magazine: “It’s so interesting that as politicians find themselves teetering on the pinnacle of their ambition, they all turn their beady eyes on the BBC because the BBC is turning its beady eyes on them. And they can’t stand it, one after the other, they attack the BBC – and that is exactly why we need the BBC.”
In biopic ‘The Duke’, the actress stars alongside fellow Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, who takes on the leading role of Kempton Bunton, a man accused of stealing the famous Duke of Wellington portrait from the National Gallery in the 1960s.
The 72-year-old star also spoke out about the BBC, claiming that if his character were alive today he would be “fighting to save” the broadcaster.
He said: “If Kempton was around now, he would be fighting to save the BBC; he’d be on the side of the BBC, against the government.”
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