isubscribe REWARDS
Instant £2.50 credit > Read more

Helen Mirren says the film industry forgets audiences

Helen Mirren tells Reader's Digest magazine about the audiences the film makers forget.

Movies seem to go in and out of fashion – a few years ago it was vampire films, now it’s zombies and apocalypses. It seems the movie makers are always trying to appeal to certain audiences.

Speaking to Reader’s Digest in the current issue, it seems Dame Helen Mirren agrees and believes it is to do with the folks behind the camera forgetting about audiences.

"It's the funny thing about the film industry," she says. "They're constantly forgetting about certain huge audiences.

"They completely forgot about teenage girls for a while; then Titanic came out and made something like £3 billion - basically from teenage girls."

She adds: "Before that, I remember they forgot about [young] kids. In this case, they forgot about the baby-boomer generation, which is an awful lot of people who are now in their 50s and 60s, and grew up on the cinema.

"They've got money in their pockets, they're free of having to go home to look after the children, and they want to go to the movies."

Read the full interview in the July issue of Reader’s Digest.

Subscribe and save on a Reader’s Digest magazine subscription today.

Posted by Amy Power.

Join isubscribe Rewards and you can earn an instant 250 points.
That's £2.50 credit off your next purchase!