Watch Helen Mirren, Billy Crystal spoof Twilight

By Patrick McLennan
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Watch Helen Mirren, Billy Crystal spoof Twilight
Watch Helen Mirren, Billy Crystal spoof Twilight (Image credit: AP/Press Association Images)

Dame Helen Mirren stars with Billy Crystal as an OAP vampire in a Twilight-style spoof sequel to When Harry Met Sally. Billy premiered his first video for comedy website FunnyOrDie.com on Wednesday, which shows him and director Rob Reiner pitching a When Harry Met Sally follow-up to studio executives. But after an executive played by Adam Scott requests one tweak, a spoof trailer follows with Harry falling in love with a woman in a retirement home called Sharon, played by Dame Helen, who turns out to be a blood-sucking vampire. The sequel is called 'Grampires: When Sharon Bit Harry'. A number of stars make cameos in the four-and-a-half minute video, including Maya Rudolph, Rob Riggle and Mike Tyson as a sheriff. The trailer shows Dame Helen and Billy sending up classic romcom When Harry Met Sally, which Billy starred in with Meg Ryan, followed by a spoof of teen vampire love story Twilight as their passionate love scenes become ever more gory. And the video's tagline? "Being old sucks." Watch Grampires here

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.