United Kingdom, May 27 -- Dame Helen Mirren warns there is still a "desire to repress women".

The 79-year-old British actress has revealed her "fear" for women in the United States, especially after the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade in 2022, overturned in 2022, which left millions in the US without the constitutional right to abortion.

She told WWD: "My great fear is that with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade and what's happening in America in general, you realise that lurking in the back is always this need, this desire to repress women.

"You think of the way women were treated under Stalin, under Hitler. It was 'get back there, have babies, and shut up. Be pretty, be sexy, have babies, and then shut up about everything else'.

"I ...