Dame Helen Mirren has shared that tomatoes are bisexual, and that to help them grow, one should finger them. No, we don’t know either. But we’ll try our best to explain. Speaking to Jimmy Fallon alongside Pierce Brosnan to promote the pair’s new Netflix series The Thursday Murder Club, conversation on the 12 August episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, turned to salsa making. After Fallon produced the ingredients for the salsa, Dame Helen Mirren then chose to impart wisdom unlike any heard on earth for generations: the humble tomato fruit is a bisexual baddie. “Incidentally, I just want to give you a tip about growing tomatoes,” Mirren told Fallon. “You know the little flower [on a tomato plant]? Well, a good way to get a tomato out of a flower, is you have to tremble the flower, like this.” ‘Trembling’ in this case, as demonstrated by Mirren’s subsequent curled finger gesture in the air, means to lightly finger or caress. “Stop doing that,” Fallon joked of Mirren’s ...