Dame Helen Mirren has said she confronted a bear in the garden of her US home.
The Oscar-winning actress, 74, said the black bear came onto her property to eat bird feed.
She told the WTF With Marc Maron podcast she drove it away from her newly-built home near Lake Tahoe in Nevada by shouting “bad bear”.
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“A great big black bear came by and stole my bird feed,” Dame Helen told the podcast.
“I went out and I said, ‘Bad bear, naughty bear, very naughty bear!’
“He sort of looked at me and lumbered off.”
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The Queen star said she learnt from a pamphlet what to do if you find yourself facing a bear “looking aggressively at you and hunching its back like it is about to charge”.
“They said you make yourself look as big as possible, if you can grab a stick, make yourself look big and then it literally said and then shout, ‘Bad bear, bad bear!’”
Dame Helen Mirren reveals she confronted a bear in her garden
