NOVEMBER
FA
LLMOVIE
PR
EVIEW
who has internet access
is the victim of one scam
or another. With the
development of technol-
ogy, it’s becoming more
and more terrifying how
we can have the wool
pulled over our eyes.
Do you think being an
actor makes a person
better at lying?
So many times you see
guys on television
sobbing and saying,
“Please bring my wife
back to me, I just want
to know she’s all right,”
when they know they
murdered her a week
ago. And yet they
are utterly convincing,
and they are not
actors. They’re not Sir
Ian McKellen. [Laughs]
Actors, on the contrary,
I think would find it
very difficult to do that.
In the process of acting,
actors are always
trying to find the truth.
You’re a L’Oréal Paris
spokesperson and
have talked about how
you don’t like the term
anti-aging. Why is it
important to you to speak
out about beauty?
I think it’s terrible, the
idea that we all have to
look the same way. I
find it very depressing,
the thought of millions
of girls wanting to have
exactly the same lips as
somebody else. So
I think it’s important to
promote diversity in
looks and shapes and
sizes and all the rest
of it, and stop excluding
people. I think that’s
happening, incidentally,
and I really applaud it.
You recently arrived at the
Catherine the Great pre-
miere carried in a sedan
chair. Do you frequently
travel by manservant?
I’ve never been carried
by a manservant ever
in my life. [Laughs] But I
loved every minute.
Earlier that day I’d been
in a car trying to get
from one end of Regent
Street to the other, and it
took me a whole hour,
whereas a sedan chair
would’ve gotten me there
much quicker. It could
be the future of city
travel. —Devan Coggan
DIRECTED BY Bill Condon
STARRING Helen Mirren,
Ian McKellen
IN THEATERS Nov. 15
→ Helen Mirren
(center, with Ian
McKellen and
Russell Tovey) has
her suspicions
about McKellen’s
too-good-to-be-
true suitor
MIRREN: LORENZO AGIUS/WARNER BROS.; CHIABELLA JAMES/WARNER BROS. THE GOOD LIAR:
