A Minute With: Helen Mirren on Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, and women

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From the Queen of England, a tough chief detective and a handful of ruthless secret agents, Britain's Dame Helen Mirren has never been a woman to be messed with - on or off screen. Now the Oscar-winning actress plays one Hollywood's notorious gossips columnist Hedda Hopper in drama "Trumbo," out in U.S. theatres on Friday. The film focuses on the 1947 Hollywood Blacklist, where ten screenwriters and directors including Dalton Trumbo (played by Bryan Cranston) were shunned and in a few cases, jailed, for their associations with the Communist party.