Helen Mirren learns Russian for her role in 'The Debt'

Helen Mirren admitted that she struggled a lot to learn Russian for her new movie 'The Debt'.

Mirren plays a Mossad spy searching for a Nazi war criminal and appeared as a guest on 'The Jonathan Ross Show' to promote the film.

The 66-year-old actress showed off her linguistic skills on UK TV on Sep 24 by conversing in Russian but admitted her language skills are limited, despite her family links to the country,reports said.
  
"I haven't actually learnt much Russian. I had to learn a bit of Russian for the film I just did, The Debt, but I don't speak Russian which is sad considering my dad was Russian, but I didn't learn it at home," she said.

However, she has earlier expressed her wish to do a full-time action heroin because it would mean less of acting.

"I'm dying to be a full-time action movie heroine because the great thing about action is that you don't have to act. All you have to do is go from A to B as proficiently as possible," she added.