Helen Mirren Thinks It's 'Sad' Kurt Cobain Died Without Experiencing the 'Magical' Capabilities of GPS

Helen Mirren has an interesting take on Kurt Cobain’s death.

“I always say, it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did, because he never saw GPS,” the actress told Evening Standard’s Brave New World. “GPS is the most wonderful thing, to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable.”

She made the remark while she was discussing getting older.

“If you’re lucky, you get to be older,” she explained. “And then there you are. Oh my God, I’m 79! I never thought I’d be 79. And then you say, OK, well this is it. This is what 79 is. And it’s kind of OK. It’s not brilliant, but it was not that brilliant to be 25 either.”

GPS—or Global Positioning System—began as a joint civil and military technical program in 1973. However, it didn’t become available to the public until 2000, when the government allowed three additional GPS signals to be used for non-military purposes.

Cobain died by suicide in 1994 when he was 27 years old, just a few years before GPS started becoming ubiquitous.

This isn’t the first time Mirren has connected the Nirvana singer’s death to technology. In 2014, she told Oprah, “Look at Kurt Cobain—he hardly even saw a computer! The digital stuff that’s going on is so exciting. I’m just so curious about what happens next,” per Variety.

She also made similar remarks about his death and the internet. In 2015, she told Cosmopolitan that she was thinking about him and how “he died without knowing the internet, and I’m totally blown away by that.”