Helen Mirren is sharing her thoughts on what she hopes her beauty legacy will be.

PEOPLE spoke with Mirren, 80, at the L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth 2025 event in Los Angeles on Dec. 2. During the conversation, the actress revealed that she doesn’t love the word “beauty,” and that she hopes she’s remembered for something meaningful when it comes to her personal aesthetic.

“I don’t like the word beauty. I’ve always preferred the word swagger. So my legacy would be: ‘She had good swagger,’ “ Mirren said.

The L’Oréal Paris global ambassador previously opened up about her biggest red carpet style hack, noting that it’s all about the footwear.

“I’ve learned over the years, your shoes have to be bearable,” Mirren told PEOPLE during the Cannes Film Festival in May. “They don’t necessarily have to be comfortable. And in fact, comfortable sometimes is a bit boring, and you want cool shoes. But they have to be bearable because if you’re in unbearable pain, that is going to reflect on your face and your posture and everything. So you start with the shoes, and just make sure that you’re secure in them and they’re bearable.”

She also shared that she’s reached a stage in her career where she values comfort in fashion, while admitting that wasn’t always the case.

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“I’ve come to a point where I just want (my red carpet outfit) to be comfortable as well,” she said while at Cannes. “Beauty knows no pain. I have been there than once, you know, sucking up the pain for my vanity. But again, it reflects on your face if you’re comfortable.”

She added that she views a red carpet as a performative experience.

“(A red carpet is) a performance. It is like going onstage, really, and I treat it as such. It’s a sort of wonderful, fun, silly performance. It’s not going to last forever. It has huge meaning for a second or two, and then the meaning is gone, and we’re onto something else,”The Queenactress said.

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In an October interview withAllureMirren reflected on the process of aging, and why she considers reaching the milestone age of 80 “beautiful.”

“I find everything about it (fabulous),” she told the outlet. “F— it, I’m alive and I’m working and I can drink a glass of wine and I can wear makeup and I can listen to music and I can watch a beautiful sunset and I can go to the theater and I can watch a movie and I can binge Netflix and I can live life.”

“It’s a beautiful thing,” she added.