Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford’s relationship timeline

Romance with a rocky start. Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford have been together for more than 30 yearsBut their first encounter did not go smoothly.

Oscar winner and Ray The Director met in 1985 while Hackford was working on the film White NightsBut Mirren did not impress when her prospective husband was waiting for an audition. “It was a strange way to meet Helen, because she was a lovely person,” said the California native AARP the magazine in September 2006. “But she did not hold her fury back.”

Once they get to know each other, however the Queen The actress came around, partly because of how Hackford interacted with his sons. “I have to say that the thing I loved most about Taylor was his complete, complete commitment to his children,” Emmy’s winner told the outlet. The Bukowski writer shares Rio’s son (born in 1970) with the first woman Georgie Lowess and his son Alexander (born in 1979) with the second wife Lynne a little man.

Mirren, for her part, has said that She never wanted her own biological children. “It wasn’t my fate,” he said British Vogue In February 2013. “I caught thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but I never did, and I didn’t care what people thought.”

The native in the UK was also not sold on marriage in her younger years, but Meet Hackford changed her mind. “We finally got married because we realized we’re going to be together forever,” said Mirren AARP the magazine In November 2016. “We ultimately married for legal reasons above all else. Planning estates and other complex things like that. And our families, we sensed, wanted us to marry. I always said that I have nothing against marriage; it wasn’t for my taste.

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