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    Helen Mirren welcomes the Time's Up movement and the anti-gun vibe of horror film 'Winchester'

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Jan 29, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - On a bright Los Angeles morning a few days after the Golden Globes, Helen Mirren - dressed impeccably in black while discussing her latest film, the haunted-house tale "Winchester" - arrived at an unexpected concern: the fate of all those poor Stormtroopers in the "Star Wars" movies.

    "I saw ('The Force Awakens') and I thought they made a terrible mistake because they took the Stormtrooper's hat off," the Oscar-winning star of "The Queen" and British national treasure said, feigning shock.

    "There was this lovely young actor (John Boyega) - which means one of the Stormtroopers is a human being. And if he's a human, they're all human. And you have been indiscriminately killing Stormtroopers for the last (six) 'Star Wars' movies without any consideration to their humanity!"

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