Helen Mirren is one of the latest actresses to join the taylor sheridan universe for him yellow stone prequel 1923. Mirren plays Clara Dutton, a distant relative of Kelly Reilly. yellow stone beth character. Although Mirren and Reilly won’t be working together on the same Sheridan-verse show, they filmed a TV series together early in Reilly’s acting career.
Helen Mirren and Kelly Reilly worked together on the set of ‘Prime Suspects’
Kelly Reilly is a British actor. with decades of experience. One of her first roles was a two-episode stint as Polly Henry in season 4 of the drama series. main suspects. Reilly, now 45, was just a teenager at the time. Mirren also appeared in main suspects as DCI Jane Tennison, and Reilly was a bit dazzled.
“Helen Mirren It’s someone I did my first TV job with called prime suspect when I was 16,” Reilly told Entertainment Tonight at the 2022 Paramount upfronts. “She was the first professional actress I ever worked with. She was amazing, she was fierce and brilliant and everything I wanted to be as an actor. You know, full of courage and heart.”
Mirren called Reilly a ‘star’ when they worked together decades ago
Years later, Reilly joined the cast of yellow stone as Beth Dutton, John’s fiery and loyal only daughter. Helen Mirren will also be a part of Sheridan’s verse on the yellow stone prequel 1923. Mirren plays Clara Dutton, the matriarch of the Dutton family and a distant relative of Beth Dutton.
In a recent interview with entertainment tonightMirren recalled the first time she worked with Reilly on main suspects. “I remember this very beautiful, very talented girl coming on set, and I remember looking at her and saying, ‘There’s a star,’” she told the outlet. “And it was her first job. It was very clear from the beginning.”
“I’ve seen Kelly over the years give wonderful performances on stage and on screen, and it’s just another one of her great performances,” Mirren said of Reilly’s work as Beth in yellow stone. Unfortunately, Reilly and Mirren won’t have any scenes together in Sheridan’s verse as their characters live decades apart.
Helen Mirren enters Sheridan’s verse as Cara Dutton in ‘1923’
In 1923, Helen Mirren plays Cara Dutton, an Irish immigrant, and the wife of Jacob Dutton. Although the series is set almost a century ago, Mirren said Term she sees her character as an “equal partner” for Jacob.
“We present a couple who [in a] relationship [that] when so much time passes it becomes a partnership,” he said. “So, they’re partners more than anything, of course, they’re husband and wife, but their true kind of equal partners where you’d have to be dealing with that kind of environment.”
1923 premieres Sunday, December 18, 2022 on Paramount+.
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