In London, actress Helen Mirren- appearing as Queen Elizabeth in a play- left the theater during intermission to tell a group of street performers to be quiet. The drummers were promoting a gay and transgender festival scheduled for later this month in London.
Mirren was performing in the play "The Audience" and left the theater in full costume to tell the drummers to stop playing, According to the Daily Telegraph, Mirren "used some salty language to express her annoyance" with the disturbance.
"I'm afraid there were a few 'thespian' words used," she told the newspaper. "They got a very stern royal ticking off but I have to say they were very sweet and they stopped immediately."
Mirren said she struggled through the first half of the play because of all the noise outside. The Oscar-winning actress was doing a scene where Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren) was talking with Prime Minister John Major (Paul Ritter).
"I was so upset from struggling through the scene with Paul that I literally walked straight off stage, straight up the stairs and straight out the stage door and banged my way through the crowd who were watching and said, 'Stop, you've got to stop right now,' only I might have used stronger language than that," Mirren told the Daily Telegraph.
To add to the frustration the performance was halted because of a power outage.
Parade organizer Mark McKenzie told the newspaper that not much can shock them "but seeing Helen Mirren dressed as the queen cussing and swearing and making you stop your parade - that's a new one."
In April, Mirren won an Oliver Award for her performance in "The Audience" and the play is scheduled to be broadcast to cinemas around the world starting June 13.
