Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): Hollywood actress Dame Helen Mirren has said that there was a 'streak of savagery' in Britain during the last month's riots across the nation.
"It was terrifying. There was a rush of crazed adrenaline and everyone got caught up in it," the Daily Mail quoted Mirren, as saying.
"We're a funny, complicated country, Britain, there's a streak of savagery and this was like cannibalism, society eating itself in a way," she added.
Around the time of the riots, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, called for a "DCI Tennison character" at the top of the Metropolitan Police, a reference to Dame Helen's role in the Prime Suspect series.
Sixty-six-year-old Oscar winning actress said Scotland Yard already had a 'Jane Tennison figure' in Sue Akers, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner who is running the Met's phone-hacking investigation.I actually met Sue when I was doing research for some of the Prime Suspects. So they do have a Jane Tennison already. And what they need are more of them -black Jane Tennisons and Asian Jane Tennisons," the paper quoted Mirren, as saying. (ANI)
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