So, Miss Mirren, You're 63. How Do You Look Like This? Yoga? Goji Berries? A Brilliant Plastic Surgeon? No, It's What I Get Up to in Bed (and, Believe Me, It's Not What You Think) ; Snapped in a Bikini Earlier This Year, Helen Mirren Caused a Sensation. At Last, She Reveals the Truth About That Picture - and the Philosophy That's Made Her Cinema's Sexiest Senior Citizen [Eire Region]

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What a siren! Helen Mirren is talking about her bedtime habits and how they keep her young. She is known for this sort of thing, of course. Years ago she told one interviewer how she always set her alarm for early in the morning so she could make love to her man first thing. More recently, the sauciness of her conversation caused another to conclude she was a 'minx'. And here she is, off again, talking about how she likes to leap into bed at a moment's notice, and how what goes on in that bed helps keep her energy levels up.

But hang on. The difference today is that she isn't talking about sex. She's waxing lyrical about sleep. Nookie? No. A nice afternoon nap. 'I sleep,' she says, firmly, when asked how she manages to hurtle from one film project to the next, pausing only to collect Oscars and Baftas. 'When I'm working really hard, I don't party. I don't go to the bar. I don't go out to restaurants. I just go to bed. If I'm on a film, I try to catch some sleep in my trailer at lunch. I really try to sleep as much as possible. It's very important and, as you get older, it becomes more so.'

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So, Miss Mirren, You're 63. How Do You Look Like This? Yoga? Goji Berries? A Brilliant Plastic Surgeon? No, It's What I Get Up to in Bed (and, Believe Me, It's Not What You Think) ; Snapped in a Bikini Earlier This Year, Helen Mirren Caused a Sensation. At Last, She Reveals the Truth About That Picture - and the Philosophy That's Made Her Cinema's Sexiest Senior Citizen [Eire Region]

It turns out she has a very down-to-earth approach to this ageing business. Ask most actresses how they manage to hold back the years and they will waffle on about yoga and goji berries and strange meditation practices.

Mirren is very practical about the business of getting older. Her weapons are vitamins, a h...

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