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<p>Dame Helen Mirren has revealed her time as a young waitress prepared her well for a role in Brighton Rock.</p>
<p>The Oscar-winning actress plays Ida, a tea shop manager who becomes tangled up in the seaside town&#8217;s grim mobster scene in the new film, which also stars John Hurt, Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough.</p>
<p>&#8220;I worked in a small hotel, my aunt&#8217;s hotel in Brighton. I knew this world very well. I was there in Brighton, not at the time of the mods and rockers, but around that time, so it was a world that I knew very well,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Dame Helen said she could particularly relate to Andrea&#8217;s character Rose, an innocent young girl who works in the tea shop.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was Rose, in many ways. I was 16 and working as a waitress in a little hotel,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>For her own glamorous, flame-haired character, the veteran actress took inspiration from screen sirens of the past.</p>
<p>&#8220;Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren, a nice mixture of the two,&#8221; she explained.</p>
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