Helen Mirren Reveals Vin Diesel Introduced Her To Instagram (Exclusive)
etcanada.comVin Diesel‘s constant activity on Instagram (yes, he loves posting selfie videos) has yielded at least one very good result: getting Helen Mirren to join the social media platform!
During the “Fast X” junket in Rome on Thursday, the Academy Award winner spoke with ET’s Nischelle Turner and shared it was actually Dom Toretto himself who got her into Instagram nearly a decade ago. “It was Vin and his team who sort of first introduced me to Instagram,” Mirren said. “That was, like, I don’t know how many years ago — seven years ago? — but it was a world I wasn’t really aware of and they went, ‘Oh, no, Helen, you’ve gotta do this.'” And she did.
Mirren joined Instagram in December 2016 and very quickly distinguished herself as a master of selfies, though it’s a title she may not exactly agree with. “I’m not very good at it,” she quipped.
Since joining, Mirren’s following has exploded to more than one million followers. Mirren joined the Fast franchise in 2017 with “The Fate of the Furious”, and she returned for “Hobbs & Shaw”, “F9” and now the latest instalment, as Magdalene Shaw, the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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