| Helen Mirren relives lesbian kiss in 'Advocate' interview |
 Oscar-nominated for The Last Station (and a 2007 Oscar winner for The Queen), actress Helen Mirren relives her lesbian kiss in Losing Chase, gushes over Ellen DeGeneres, empathizes with Mariah Carey, and explains why she appreciates gays as much as they appreciate her in a recent interview with The Advocate’s Brandon Voss.Here are some clips from her interview: How connected are you to your gay fans? There is an organization called HMAS, which stands for the Helen Mirren Appreciation Society, and a lot of them are gay—mostly women but also men. It’s a group who got together on the Internet, and they often organize trips and get together from all different countries to come see me in the theater and then see me afterwards. So I appreciate the HMAS. Kyra Sedgwick once told me that she owes her gay fan base in part to kissing you in the 1996 Showtime movie Losing Chase. What do you recall about those kisses? Well, just look at Kyra’s mouth—I mean, my God! I wasn’t very well known in America at that point, so that film was actually an amazing start for me here. If you do play a lesbian again, whom would you pick to play your love interest? I would just want a wonderful actress, gay or straight, but I certainly wouldn’t say no to Ellen DeGeneres. I’m such a huge fan of hers and I’ve loved her from a distance for such a long time, so it was quite a moment for me this year to do her show, stand on her set, and see her right there in front of me.
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