Helen Mirren's Animation Difficulty

Helen Mirren admits that she found it difficult lending her voice to an animated movie.

The Oscar winning actress voices a character in new movie Legend Of The Guardians alongside Emilie de Ravin, Hugo Weaving and Geoffrey Rush.

Speaking to Collider the actress said: "It's hard. I really admire the people who are very good at it. Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why.

"They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to. I try to do it as best I can. I'm playing the wicked, evil one. Of course, I'm British, what else?"

"When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product.

"You're doing the voice long before. In fact, they animate to your voice so you don't see it at all. I have no idea. That's going to be a surprise for me."

Legend Of The Guardians is just one of a series of movies coming up for Mirren this year as she is also set to star in Love Ranch with Joe Pesci and red with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich.

Legend Of The Guardians is released 15th October.