{"id":464607,"date":"2026-05-28T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:53:12","slug":"helen-mirren-husband-taylor-hackford-involved-in-viral-israel-palestine-street-exchange-video-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464607\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren &#038; Husband Taylor Hackford Involved in Viral Israel-Palestine Street Exchange Video &#8211; Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/helen-mirren-israel-788x444.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Credit: Getty Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/helen-mirren\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Mirren<\/a>, 80, and her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/taylor-hackford\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hackford<\/a>, 81, are going viral for a video that is circulating online.<\/p>\n<p>A man approached the Oscar winner and her husband on the street during a night out in London, England. It\u2019s unclear when this video was recorded. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/helen-mirren-called-evil-zionist-by-activist-in-resurfaced-video-q9rwn2sjn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a> claims it\u2019s an older video, shared in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is Helen Mirren, the avowed Zionist. You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust,\u201d the unidentified person shouted from behind the camera in a video that is getting a ton of attention on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/crimeldn\/status\/2059920113382408340\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF\u2013k off,\u201d Taylor said in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re an evil Zionist b\u2014h,\u201d the person behind the camera then said.<\/p>\n<p>Helen did appear to say something, but it was not audible. Taylor could also be heard saying inaudible statements in response as the protestor moved further away.<\/p>\n<p>Helen previously played Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir in the film Golda. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/10\/03\/helen-mirren-responds-to-criticism-of-her-role-as-israeli-prime-minister-in-golda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addressed backlash<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/helen-mirren-called-evil-zionist-pro-palestine-activist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> reports that she did previously say, \u201cI believe in Israel, in the existence of Israel, and I believe Israel has to go forward into the future, for the rest of eternity. I believe in Israel because of the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/28\/celebrities-who-support-israel-stars-who-support-palestine-including-those-boycotting-israeli-film-institutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrities support Israel <\/a>and which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/28\/celebrities-who-support-israel-stars-who-support-palestine-including-those-boycotting-israeli-film-institutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrities are pro-Palestine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/helen-mirren\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Mirren<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/israel\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/palestine\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/taylor-hackford\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hackford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Getty Images Helen Mirren, 80, and her husband Taylor Hackford, 81, are going viral for a video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}