Sometimes you just have to be reminded that celebrities often have an IQ equivalent to the average room temperature.
I don't know if the well-respected actress Helen Mirren was high, drunk, or just speaking her sober mind when she gave this interview, but let's just say it's the weirdest thing I've ever read.
Do you ever just sit around and think about how much the lead singer of Nirvana would have just LOVED Google Maps?
You don't? You don't just sit around and ponder this kind of stuff about grunge singers and technology?
Oh, well, you aren't DEEP like our actors and actresses.
'I always say, it's so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did, because he never saw GPS,' said Mirren. 'GPS is the most wonderful thing, to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable.'
Don't worry, this wasn't just a random comment. It had to do with growing older.
Of course, the comment came amid a broader point she was making about aging. 'If you're lucky, you get to be older,' she continued. 'And then there you are. Oh my G--, I'm 79! I never thought I'd be 79. And then you say, OK, well this is it. This is what 79 is. And it's kind of OK. It's not brilliant, but it was not that brilliant to be 25 either.'
Alright, granny. Let's get you back to the retirement home.
You know another part of growing old? Making bizarre connections in your brain about singers who died 30 years ago and if they'd be a Waze or an Apple Maps kinda guy.
And, apparently, the actress Helen Mirren cannot get over this Kurt Cobain thing. She's talked about it numerous times throughout the years.
Mirren has referenced Cobain numerous times in the past when discussing the nature of aging. In 2014, she told Oprah Winfrey, 'Look at Kurt Cobain — he hardly even saw a computer! The digital stuff that's going on is so exciting. I'm just so curious about what happens next.'
A year later, she told Cosmopolitan, 'I was thinking about Kurt Cobain the other day and he died without knowing the internet, and I'm totally blown away by that.' And, in 2016, she said to the Daily Mail, 'If I'd died at 27, the age that Kurt Cobain [of rock band Nirvana] died in 1994, I'd never have even known there was an internet! Incredible things are happening all the time and I can't wait to see what comes next.'
The further I read, the more fascinated I am that Helen Mirren is so stuck on Cobain. Did they ever cross paths? He wasn't in any movies as far as I know, and I doubt she listened to a lot of the Seattle grunge scene in the 90s.
This is just the most non-sequitur thing I've ever seen.
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