Helen Mirren, 73, cuts a regal figure as Catherine The Great in striking new images [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 11, 2019 | Kate Thomas

[C19fan]

Helen Mirren is playing Russia’s Catherine the Great in a new Sky Atlantic drama, set to air later this year.

The actress looks incredible in the first look gallery of images showcasing the opulent costumes from the period programme, which will go on display in a limited costume exhibition at this weekend’s BFI Radio Times Festival.

The 73-year-old actress embodies the Empress in an array of extraordinary designs, set to transport viewers back to the 18th century.

[morphing libertarian]

she has time to gain before she picks up the oscar

[Jmouse007]

Dontcha hate it! Especially Samsung’s Koreanglish “spell check” program, it’s the worst.

[Jmouse007]

Like I said, by this time she’s positively rotund: see post #40.

[OKSooner]

You go girl.

[Chuckster]

Does anyone else think Anna Torv resembles Helen Mirren when she was young?

[LS]

To quote the famous Lazmataz, “I’d hit it.

[nascarnation]

She is a very proud lesbian.

Was it her second marriage to T.E. Hackford that put her over the line?

[Churchillspirit]

Calendar Girls was very funny.

[wardaddy]

She is not a lesbian

I swear to Dios

Every day here I just go really ..

[wardaddy]

White Russian semi aristocratic dad

English mom

[wardaddy]

I thought at first you meant Red as in the Red White and Blue trilogy by filmmaker Kielowski

I was impressed admittedly

[nutmeg]

.

[Pelham]

... Juliette Binoche

[Borges]

Kielowski leaves me cold. Even Dekalog. I don’t get the big deal.

[wardaddy]

That trilogy also had Julie Delphy and Irene Jacob

[wardaddy]

The Academy liked him well enough to nominate him a bit

I just liked the women

Binoche was fresh off Damage....a rather depressing film

[Pelham]

Yep. I enjoyed the way that he had all three of those movies intersect. I had a Mormon girlfriend who looked like Binoche. But alas she didn’t speak la langue française. ‘Course I don’t either so there’s that.