The actress opens up about the piece of artwork she would steal, her surprising chemistry with Vin Diesel, and her dream costar.
, who died of a heart attack last September—never got to see it with a wide audience, she is thrilled that his final movie is finally hitting theaters. She was positively glowing earlier this month when she turned up to a New York screening hosted by the Cinema Society, wearing a pink and yellow Carolina Herrera ensemble made all the more colorful by her purple nails.
And yet, even after all this time, Mirren says she still can’t wrap her head around the fact that the improbable story at its center is entirely true. There really was a cleaning lady named Dorothy whose family somehow managed to steal a much ballyhooed Francisco Goya painting from the National Gallery in London. The British government really did believe that an international crime organization was responsible for a theft that was, in actuality, carried out by her unemployed husband and son .
We saw a great Picasso exhibition. I don’t particularly like Picasso, but it really opened my eyes. I think it was his sculptural work that made me rethink him.The DukeWe’ve been in the same film, but different parts of the film, so we [had] never actually worked together. It’s funny, you know, I don’t think in a normal world, you’d say, “Oh, Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent would have good chemistry.” You wouldn’t normally put those two people together. But chemistry is a very mysterious thing.
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