Helen Mirren: it’s so sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS was invented

‘It’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street’ … Kurt Cobain, performing with Nirvana in 1993, and Helen Mirren. Composite: Getty Images

The actor Helen Mirren has lamented that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain did not live long enough to be able to experience the excitement of tracking his location on his phone.

Speaking to the Evening Standard proprietor Evgeny Lebedev on his Brave New World podcast, Mirren, 79, said she considered herself lucky to have lived long enough to witness dramatic technological advances.