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Got a girl crush on: Helen Mirren

As per Julia Turner’s endorsement on last week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, I checked out New York Magazine’s article featuring the seminude Helen Mirren, andlemmetellyou…girlfriend looks fiiiine. Embrace age. It pays off.

“I am a little notorious,” Mirren remarks, still teasing. She says nearly everything with a mischievous twinkle, like a naughty teenager appending “ … in bed” to the end of every sentence. The actress, who turns 65 next month, is elegantly attired in pale rose and silver, her delicate hands (the nails tinted a matching pearlescent rose) constantly buttoning and unbuttoning her cardigan. It’s probably not meant flirtatiously, but with Mirren, every action can feel like a seduction. Perhaps it’s the small, black Native American tattoo on her left hand (the result, she says, of a wild, drunken night in Minnesota), her subtle finger to propriety.“

(via New York Magazine)