Helen Mirren pictured in February 2026 Dame Helen Mirren has spoken for the first time about a viral video depicting her being met with verbal abuse in the street due to her past support of Israel. Last month, footage was widely shared online depicting the Oscar winner being branded an “an evil Zionist bitch” by an unseen man. In the clip, he also told her husband, the Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford: “You as well, fuck you and all.” Earlier this week, the British performer accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taormina Film Festival, where she said of the video in question that she had been “attacked by mistake by a man who was maybe a little over passionate or maybe mentally not quite stable”. The Metropolitan Police previously said of the viral clip: “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill. It is believed that the incident took place at the end of last year.” Clarifying her stance on …