--- title: Helen Mirren Slams Ivanka Trump's Book in Interview description: Helen Mirren sounded off on first daughter Ivanka Trump, going so far as to call Trump's book "Women Who Work," "ignorant." canonical: https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-14T18:52:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:29.196Z og:title: Helen Mirren on Ivanka Trump: 'There's No Substance' og:description: "Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live" og:url: https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9678d02d7bbf708d/6988d9aebc6cfc601f3e2a26/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Members Of The Royal Family Attend The Passchendaele Commemorations In Belgium og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Helen Mirren on Ivanka Trump: 'There's No Substance' twitter:description: "Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9678d02d7bbf708d/6988d9aebc6cfc601f3e2a26/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Helen Mirren Says Ivanka Trump 'Talks a Good Game, But There's No Substance' > Sponsored content. 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Dignitaries and descendants of those who fought are gathering to mark the centenary of Passchendaele, the third battle of Ypres, on 30 and 31 July 2017\. The campaign saw intense fighting over 3 months, 1 week and 3 days with historians currently agreeing that both sides suffered losses of around 260,000 casualties each. (Photo by Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images) YPRES, BELGIUM - JULY 30: Dame Helen Mirren speaks on stage during an event that told the story of the four years of war on the Salient during commemorations marking the centenary of Passchendale on July 30, 2017 in Ypres, Belgium. Dignitaries and descendants of those who fought are gathering to mark the centenary of Passchendaele, the third battle of Ypres, on 30 and 31 July 2017\. The campaign saw intense fighting over 3 months, 1 week and 3 days with historians currently agreeing that both sides suffered losses of around 260,000 casualties each. (Photo by Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images)Pool—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 14, 2017 6:52 PM UTC [Helen Mirren](http://time.com/4359030/helen-mirren-kim-kardashian-curves-butt/) has never shied away from speaking her mind, perhaps most memorably telling the public last that she plans to be “[the nastiest of all nasty women](http://time.com/4545228/helen-mirren-nasty-women/)” — alluding, of course, to [Donald Trump’s comments about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election](http://time.com/4537960/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-nasty-woman-debate/). Now, it appears that Mirren still has feelings about the Trump administration and specifically about one of the women close to the President: his daughter, [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742699/ivanka-trump/). In an interview with [_Allure_](https://www.allure.com/story/helen-mirren-cover-story-september-2017), Helen Mirren sounded off on the First Daughter and offered a succinct critique of Ivanka’s controversial book, [_Women Who Work: Redefining the Rules for Success_.](http://time.com/4762278/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-women-who-work/) “\[Ivanka\] talks a good game, but there’s no substance,” Mirren said. “Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live, talking about ‘Make time for yourself to have a massage.’ Puh-lease.” This isn’t the first time that Ivanka’s book was panned; late night host and comedian [Samantha Bee slammed the book at length on _Full Frontal with Samantha Bee_ in May, saying that Trump’s “belief that she’s a role model is laughable.”](http://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/"},"headline":"Helen Mirren Says Ivanka Trump 'Talks a Good Game, But There's No Substance'","datePublished":"2017-08-14T18:52:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:29.196Z","description":"\"Her book is so ignorant about how the majority of women live\"","url":"https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Helen Mirren","Ivanka Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9678d02d7bbf708d/6988d9aebc6cfc601f3e2a26/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9678d02d7bbf708d/6988d9aebc6cfc601f3e2a26/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Members Of The Royal Family Attend The Passchendaele Commemorations In Belgium","caption":"Members Of The Royal Family Attend The Passchendaele Commemorations In Belgium","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4899944/helen-mirren-ivanka-trump/","name":"Helen Mirren Says Ivanka Trump 'Talks a Good Game, But There's No Substance'"}}]}] ```