The 67-year-old actress retained her dignity and sex appeal which threatened to define her early career, and she refused to accept her image should change as she ages.
She said: “Fresh sells. People don’t want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.”
With an image-conscious society, Helen also explained it can be easy to be seen as a great star, despite not putting in an extraordinary amount of effort.
She continued: “All you have to do is to look like c**p on film and everyone thinks you’re a brilliant actress. Actually, all you’ve done is look like c**p.”
As the ‘Hitchcock’ star nears the end of her 60s, she defended her decision to not have children and put it partly down to her adventurous attitude to life.
Helen said: “I still have a gypsy sense of adventure. I don’t think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole left.
“I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.”
She recently explained: “It was only boring old men [who asked why I hadn’t had children]. Whenever they went, ‘What? No children? Well, you’d better get on with it, old girl,’ I’d say, ‘No! F**k off!’ ”
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