Helen Mirren does bathtub interview with flustered Jimmy Fallon

Dame Helen Mirren left TV presenter Jimmy Fallon red-faced when she turned up for an interview on The Tonight Show within the bathtub, describing it as her ‘favorite place’.

Dame Helen, 75, is about to reprise her position in Fast and Furious 9 as Queenie Shaw, the mom of two of Dom Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) former enemies.

Whereas selling the movie, the esteemed actor made an look on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Present within the US over Zoom… though the host positively wasn’t anticipating her to be sat in a bath stuffed with bubbles when she confirmed up on display screen.

As Jimmy, 46, launched her, he burst into laughter and applauded her as he realised the place she was.

‘Oh my God, you’re the absolute… you’re the biggest. Oh my God, I like you!’ he exclaimed as he obtained up on his ft.

Dame Helen waved at Jimmy and his viewers, carrying a headscarf because the bubbles coated her as much as her neck.

Jimmy bows right down to Dame Helen as she exhibits up on display screen (Image: NBC / Backgrid)

The dame mentioned that the tub was her ‘favorite place on this planet’ (Image: NBC / Backgrid)

‘I’m in my favorite place on this planet,’ she mentioned, as Jimmy revealed that she ‘is likely to be the primary visitor ever to be within the bathtub on the Tonight Present’.

The Queen actor mentioned that’s what she finds ‘so sensible about Zoom’, that she will do interviews from wherever she would love.

I used to be pondering, you already know: “Why not be within the place you like to sit down and chat to folks?” I like to speak to my husband whereas sitting within the bathtub, so why not do it to the entire of America?’ she mentioned.

Whereas Jimmy remarked that her resolution was ‘very sensible’, which is why she’s ‘the perfect’, Dame Helen admitted that she was ‘operating out of bubbles’.

‘You’re chatting away and my bubbles are happening!’ she warned.

Jimmy promised that he would ‘make the interview very quick then’, as Dame Helen quipped: ‘Sure quick and livid!’ What a plug.

Throughout their interview, Dame Helen revealed that her Quick and Livid character Queenie was named after one among her aunts, who had the identical identify.

She defined that her aunt in query got here from a ‘large East Finish household with 14 youngsters’, stating: ‘It was a really previous London household and I had an Auntie Queenie. It’s a correct East Finish identify Queenie so I believed that will be a superb identify for her to have.’

The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights on NBC.