Helen Mirren does a tequila shot on the Oscars red carpet like the legend she is

She also refused to do an over-the-shoulder 'bottom' shot on the red carpet

She also refused to do an over-the-shoulder 'bottom' shot on the red carpet

When the paparrazzi yelled at Helen Mirren to do an over-the-shoulder shot (AKA the 'bottom' shot) on the Oscars red carpet, she quite rightly told them where to go.

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But when someone handed her a tequila shot, Mirren was naturally into it.

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She later took to the stage at the ceremony to present an award hand-in-hand with her pal Jane Fonda.

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'These sets look like the orgasmatron from Barbarella' Fonda quipped, while Mirren gestured to the Oscar statuette and joked, 'That's an anomaly in Hollywood, an older man and a younger woman.'

Speaking to The New York Times about the #TimesUp and #MeToo movement that's dominated the conversation this year, Mirren said, 'It’s an amazing moment, isn’t it? I’ve never wanted to be younger than I am, but the only thing that makes me think, God, I wish I was 18 now, in that 18-year-olds now are coming into a very different world.'

Lucy Pavia