Mirren thought of breaking her leg to avoid nude scene

Veteran actress Helen Mirren considered breaking her own leg in a bid to avoid shooting for a fully frontal nude film scene.

The Oscar winner was not ready to do a nude scene in Ken Russell's 1972 film "The Savage Messiah" and thought about harming herself to force the director to rethink the scene, reports imdb.com.

"The day I had to do that nude scene, where I had to walk completely b**lock naked down a flight of stairs, was awful. It was early days and I was so mortified, embarrassed and unhappy about it," she said.

"I remember that morning looking out of my trailer, this funky little caravan thing and wondered if I threw myself off the top step of the trailer I could manage to break my leg and not have to do the scene! I wouldn't like to do that today," she said.

Mirren fast became known for stripping off onscreen - but she insists it isn't as easy as it looks.

"It's never comfortable. The best thing would be if all the crew took their clothes off too and then you'd feel fine but it's never comfortable to be the only one without clothes on."

I like my nude photos: Helen Mirren

Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren has laughed off suggestions that she is too old to pose naked.

The 64-year-old recently posed naked for a magazine shoot, which was criticised by some who said a woman of a certain age should not bare all, reports digitalspy.com.

"I like the photos because I thought they were naked in the proper sense of the word naked. I've got very little make-up on. There's no elaborate lighting. He (photographer) just used a flash. And it's simple and it's real. I think that was the intention of the photographs," said Mirren.

"They weren't intended remotely to be sexy, I think sex and nudity are really two different things, you see, but then I'm a bit weird like that. Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. I think people tend to get the two mixed up," she added.

Mirren is currently filming for "Love Ranch", which is being directed by her husband Taylor Hackford.

Helen Mirren's Wax Double

She’s one of the greatest actresses of her time, and now Helen Mirren has been honored with a wax figure of herself.

The 65-year-old actress came face to face with the impressive life-size figure at the unveiling at the London museum earlier on(May 11).

When the “Queen” actress revealed of her twin, it was so lifelike, even her husband, Taylor Hackford, was confused.

Mirren had been actively involved in making the figure since before Christmas and the outfit was donated by herself, after wearing it to the ITV3 Crime Thriller awards of 2008.