Tag: Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Thinks People Need To Chill Out Over Those ‘Barbie’ Oscar Snubs

If you built a time machine, journeyed back even two years, and told whoever you found that a movie based on Barbie, the beloved if sometimes controversial doll line, would Hoover up eight Oscar nominations, they wouldn’t believe you. And yet here we are. Greta Gerwig and her cowriter/now-husband Noah Baumbach thought way outside the […]

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Helen Mirren Detailed Her Cut ‘Barbie’ Scene That Involved Fighting A Drunk Olivia Colman

It’s been over seven months since Barbie hit theaters, yet it seems like every week we learn of a new actor or actress who was supposed to make an appearance in the film. We recently learned that DunkInfluencer Ben Affleck was slated to appear before bowing out at the 11th hour, along with a handful […]

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The Strange Feminism of Golda

I suspect this is also why Mirren wanted to play Meir. Though Golda mercifully avoids on-the-nose dialogue to this effect, this is a movie about a tough and ruthless woman presiding over an all-male Cabinet engaged in the traditionally male fields of politics and warfare. The contemporary American audience for a movie about the Yom […]

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