Name: Helen Mirren Talks About Really Heavy Stuff | The Graham Norton Show | October 4, 11pm | BBC America
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I mean, in any way, like, is it like going home?

Because you are Russian, Properly Russian When I'm half Russian.

Actually some properly West Ham in Russia.

I mean, you were born with a proper Russian name, which I can't Yeah, ee.

Yeah, Well, I Cheever Helen, but LeAnn on the Russian version of that Yeah.

Your dad wasn't born here, and then your grandfather was the person who came here?

He was one of the He was in the army and he was in the czarist army.

I mean, I can't receive and accept a long time ago, but he was actually a young officer, a colonel in the czarist army.

Yeah, and he was sent here to make an arms deal with the British government because the Russians have very few arms at the time.

So and then he basically got cut off by the Revolution.

Because if he went back, he would have been instantly ex executed.

Andi, You know, as his fortunes went down and down and down and he got cut off from the family estates in the money in a new restaurant in Russia.

I heard you talking about your household, that it was quite Russian, growing up like there wasn't Russian.

There's not much small talk, you know, You don't have small talk in Russian now.

You talk about the soul and you talk about, you know, is there God and you talk about deep philosophical stuff.

So when I sort of grew up on Dhe left home, I found it almost in part.

Impossible to sit here, not talk about really heavy.

So you get to the Oh, wait, Mr Graham Norton show New season Friday, October 4th at 11.

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Helen Mirren Talks About Really Heavy Stuff | The Graham Norton Show | October 4, 11pm | BBC America

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