MIRREN’S DARTS EXPERIENCE HELPED RED SHOOTING SCENES
DAME HELEN MIRREN scored a bullseye with her shooting skills on the set of action movie RED thanks to years of playing darts.
The veteran actress portrayed a retired secret agent in the 2010 film and she worked with professionals to perfect her weapons handling on set.
Mirren has now revealed her fondness for darts games helped her get to grips with the guns.
She tells British TV host Jonathan Ross, "(It was my) first time (using guns). I did a film called Shadowboxer where I played an assassin, so I had handled a gun before, but nothing like this one (RED).
"They’re scary things, guns… I trained with all of those guns, with live ammunition, in California so I had a day with ammunition experts.
"I’m a pretty good shot actually. I always kind of knew that I would be, I was always pretty good on the darts stall. I’m not bad."
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