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Nobody calls her "guv" but she does at one stage refer to a "geezer".
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If you're in the mood for Matthew Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and many other blokes like Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg, clad in the sort of Victorian costumes one may hire on Blackpool beach nowadays for a comedy sepia photo session, saying things a bit like: "Annuver tart's been ripped guv! 'Er womb's been left in ribbons and her labia is scattered across two parishes.
If you really want to laugh, imagine if he were a woman "luv guv" with her rental toy boy or girl.
She called him Guv.
It wasn't him, guv! Bennett's riposte?
But it makes her day when she sees ex-offenders in town who say "hello guv" or nod at her in the street.
Of course, Mirren went on to play the Queen, but this is the role – the female "guv" in the man's world of the Met – that made her a screen star after two decades in theatre.
What, guv?
Honest, guv.
No way, guv.
Take the gift, guv.
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