Mirren: 'It's sad Cobain died before he could experience GPS tracking'

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

- Catherine Shoard

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.

"I always say it's so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did," she said, "because he never saw GPS, as it's the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I find it magical and unbelievable."