Helen Mirren and Other Celebrity Sightings

Here's a fun update of what I have recently been up to:

Yesterday our group went on a tour of the National Theatre. I'm convinced we did this because they tried to get us tickets to a show at the National but couldn't...so this was the next best thing. It was cool. The theatres are ugly, but hey it was built in the seventies. We got the inside scoop on how they change from one show to the next so quickly and we went backstage and looked at props and such. It was all VERY exciting. 

TODAY after class a couple of us went to Leicester Square to get food since we were seing The Audience tonight in the West End. While we were making our way to the theatre from the restaurant we noticed a massive crowd in the square...so naturally we went to check it out. It just happened to be the London premier of the Hangover Part III. Of course there was a HUGE crowd around and we couldn't see much, but I got this really great picture of Zach Galifianakis doing an interview...

If you like...squint a lot you can make out his face. I promise...he was there. As was Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper and the other members of the Hangover cast. And other people that are famous I guess that were attending the premier.

I wish I could say that this was my picture of Bradley Cooper. Unfortunately it's not. We swear that one of the kids in our dialogue group is a ninja because how else does he get a shot like this? He must have ninja-ed his way through the crowd.
So I'll just pretend that I was this close to him.
Whatever...either way I was in the same vicinity as Bradley Cooper. I'm pleased.

Then we decided we should probably make our way to the theatre.
The Audience was a show about the Queen and her weekly 'audiences' with the Prime Minister.
Mostly it humanized the Queen which I appreciated immensely.
Also, Helen Mirren.
She literally thinks she's the Queen...and honestly, I'm okay with that. She can pretend she's the Queen all she wants because the woman is FIERCE.
She changed from old queen to young queen right before our eyes, with people changing her wig and dresses right on stage but she didn't miss a SINGLE beat.

Wait...not only did I breathe the same air as the Hangover III cast and Helen Mirren...but Eddie Redmayne was in The Audience audience (lol) tonight. So yeah, I breathed the same air as Eddie Redmayne. It's casual. No big deal. Except I actually FREAKED OUT when I realized this. I required some deep breathing exercises to collect myself. Not even exaggerating.

SO many, many celebrity sightings today. Overall...lovely.