{alltv} Mirren learned French to woo boys

 

Veteran actress Dame Helen Mirren was desperate to learn French as a young girl, because she longed to snare a Parisian boyfriend.

The Queen star grew up in Southend-on-Sea, England, a seaside town where there was a regular influx of students from France who travelled to the U.K. to study.

And she admits she spent hours brushing up on her language skills so she could charm one of the pupils.

Dame Helen tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "There was always this coterie of French students who'd come to learn English and I was a complete francofile. I thought everything French was so cool and smart and elegant. I was desperate to get a French boyfriend and I did - Jean-Louis."

And the Brit reveals she's actually still in touch with her teenage boyfriend, adding: "Thanks to the internet, brilliantly, the brilliant, wonderful internet, very recently, I thought, 'I wonder where Jean-Louis is. I'll never find him.'

"I googled him, bang! He came up immediately. I sent him an email and within 24 hours, I was back in touch with him. It was amazing! This was like 40 years later. (Jean-Louis) wasn't saucy, he was very, very well-behaved and Catholic."

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