London, June 24 (IANS) Oscar winning actress Dame Helen Mirren says she wears comedian Russell Brand’s underpants occasionally.

While wrapping up the film ‘The Tempest’ she picked up Brand’s innerwear as a momento.

‘He was leaving and he was coming to say goodbye and he had a pile of books and papers (from his trailer) and on top of all these things were a pair of bright yellow, canary yellow underpants,’ dailysatr.co.uk quoted her as saying.

‘I grabbed them and said, ‘Russell, I’m having those as my little memento of working with you.’ I put them on occasionally.’