A romance with a difficult start. Helen Mirren And Taylor Hackford have been together for over 30 years, but their first meeting has not gone well.
The Oscar winner and the Radius Director met in 1985 while Hackford worked on the film WhiteBut Mirren was not impressed when her future husband kept her waiting for a hearing. “It was a strange way to meet Helen because she is a charming person,” said the native of California AARP the magazine in September 2006. “But she did not hold back her fury.”
After getting to know each other, however, Queen The actress came, in part because of the way Hackford interacted with her sons. “I must say that the thing I liked the most about Taylor was his absolute and total commitment to his children,” said the Emmy winner. THE Bukowski The writer shares his RIO (born in 1970) with the first wife Georgie Lowres and his son Alexander (born in 1979) with the second wife Lynne a little man.
Mirren, for her part, said that she had never wanted her own organic children. “It was not my destiny,” she said British Vogue In February 2013. “I kept thinking that it would be, while waiting for it to happen, but I never did, and I didn’t care what people thought.”
The native of the United Kingdom was also not fully sold on marriage in his young years, but meeting Hackford changed his mind. “We got married at the end because we realized that we were going to be together forever,” said Mirren AARP the magazine In November 2016. “We were married, in the end, for legal reasons more than anything else. Inheritance planning and other complicated things like that. And our families, we felt that we were getting married. I always said that I had nothing against marriage; it was not for my taste, like the turnips.
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