“He never got to see GPS”: Helen Mirren feels “sad” for Kurt Cobain, but not for the reason you might expect

Helen Mirren and Kurt Cobain.

Now here’s what you call a fresh perspective: in an interview with the London Evening Standard (now a weekly paper called the London Standard) award-winning actress Helen Mirren has said that she feels “sad” that Kurt Cobain died when he did. Why? “Because he never got to see GPS.”

Not the first thing you immediately think of when one’s mind turns to the tragic leader of Nirvana, but there you go.