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It’s been a long two years since the premiere of 1923, but it’s going to be worth it. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal a closer look at what’s to come in the long-awaited second season in a new featurette, which kicks off with Helen Mirren, herself, acknowledging just how torturous the wait has been for fans. “It took a long time to get here, you know. It’s been 2 years,” Mirren, 79, says as she sits beside her onscreen husband, Harrison Ford, inside the Yellowstone ranch on set. Julia Schlaepfer, who plays Alexandra, is equally eager to be back in the swing of things, as she says it “feels so incredible to be back” on set – and teases a “very, very emotional” season to come. “Taylor [Sheridan] sent me the scripts and I was weeping.” Mirren (Cara Dutton) credits the show’s “extraordinary crew,” too, for the magic of the show, while Darren Mann (Jack Dutton) says, “I have never seen anything like it. Everything about it is just so authentic.” The featurette can be watched in the video archive. Screencaptures and a teaser poster for season 2 have been added to the photo gallery.
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – 1923 – Season 2 – Screencaptures – Featurettes
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – 1923 – Season 2 – Posters & Key-Art
Video Archive – Career – 1923 – Season 2 – Featurette: A Closer Look
Paramount+ on Sunday released the official trailer for the second season of 1923. Season two of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel, starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, will premiere Feb. 23. The series also stars Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. The logline for the second season of 1923: “A cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.”
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – 1923 – Season 2 – Screencaptures – Trailer
Video Archive – Career – 1923 – Season 2 – Trailer
Paramount+ continues teasing the new season of “1923” with another teaser/trailer. In the upcoming second season, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Brandon Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. The series also stars Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. 1923 season two is set to premiere on Sunday, February 23rd on Paramount+.
Video Archive – Career Videos – 1923 – Season 2 – Teaser Trailer
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Television Series – 1923 – Season 2 – Teaser Trailer Screencaptures
Paramount+ has premiered the first trailers for the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” spin-off series “1923” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. In the second season of 1923, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob and Cara back at Dutton Ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, and Aminah Nieves. Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton, and Jennifer Carpenter also star. “1923” returns on the Paramount+ streaming service on February 23rd 2025. The two teaser trailers can be found in the video archive.
Video Archive – Career – 1923 – Season 2 – Announcement Trailer
On Thursday, Helen Mirren and her fellow L’Oréal Paris ambassadors attended the brand’s annual Women of Worth Celebration Gala. On the red carpet, Helen talked to “Extra” about wrapping both “The Thursday Murder Club – one of the great jobs of her career – and the second season of “1923” – for which she was more than ready and which is going to be spectacular. The interview can be watched in the video archive. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.
Video Archive – News Segments – 2024 – Extra (2024)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2024 – L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Celebration
Today, Helen Mirren has been a guest on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” to promote the theatrical release of “White Bird” in the United States. On the show, she was presented with a “Helen F****** Mirren” cocktail from the Pal’s Lounge New Orleans, the bar owned by her late step-son Rio. She also read a poem called “Love” by the recently executed Marcellus Willams. You can watch her appearance in the video archive. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.
Video Archive – Talkshows – The Kelly Clarkson Show (2024)
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2024 – The Kelly Clarkson Show (October 03, 2024)
A week ahead of its theatrical release in the United States, Helen Mirren has joined Lionsgate’s press tour for “White Bird”. Besides yesterday’s screening at the DGA Theater in New York (see update below), she and director Marc Forster were interviewed on a press junket. Clips from both events have been added to the video archive, alongside a making of featurette for the film.
Video Archive – News Segments – WGN News (2024)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – “White Bird” New York Screening (2024)
Video Archive – Career – White Bird – Making Of
A scandal upon release, 1979’s Caligula was destroyed when porn scenes were sliced into the cut, unbeknownst to its director or stars Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. But now rediscovered footage and painstaking work has rescued this raucous Roman epic. The first thing you learn about the film is that it’s shocking, disgusting, immoral. Keep going and soon enough someone dismisses the film – less as shocking, disgusting, and immoral, more as a slog. As Time magazine put it, the film enjoyed “all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica”. Such bad reputation’s persisted for nearly 45 years, making so much more commendable Thomas Negovan’s efforts to give Caligula new life. Hence Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, which uses more than 100 hours of footage to create a 173-minute revision. The new cut, among other things, gives more life to Mirren’s Caesonia, whose role was heavily cut for the 1979 theatrical version. As Malcolm Dowell mentions in a new interview with Total Film, “I never thought my full performance would ever be seen or Helen Mirren’s moving, commanding Caesonia would at last be unearthed. It is an unprecedented odyssey.”
Video Archive – Career Videos – Caligula: The Ultimate Cut – Trailer
Video Archive – Career Videos – Caligula: The Ultimate Cut – Teaser Trailer
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Caligula – The Ultimate Cut – Screencaptures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Caligula – Posters & Key-Art
As it has become quite a tradition by now, Helen Mirren made a splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival as a L’Oréal Paris ambassador. Besides the premiere for “La plus precieuse des marchandises”, she also attended L’Oréal’s Lights on Women’s Worth Awards alongside Elle Fanning and Viola Davis. The actresses were also interviewed on C à Vous in the afternoon, and Helen talked to A l’Affiche à Cannes as well. Photos, screencaptures and videos from all appearances have been added to the archives. A complete list can be found below.
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 77th Cannes Film Festival – Lights on Women’s Worth Awards
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 77th Cannes Film Festival – La plus precieuse des marchandises
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – C à Vous (May 24, 2024)
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – A l’Affiche à Cannes (May 24, 2024)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 77th Cannes Film Festival (2024)
Video Archive – News Segments – C à Vous (2024)
Video Archive – News Segments – A l’Affiche à Cannes (2024)
Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford are the testimonials of the “Centro Ilma”, the multidisciplinary institute for the prevention and fight against tumors that the Lilt of Lecce is completing on the outskirts of Gallipoli and which will deal with applied research on environmental causes of cancer, early diagnosis, physical rehabilitation and psychological support, as well as home health and social care for terminally ill patients and scientific dissemination. A “popular initiative” project, financed entirely thanks to the donations and solidarity of the Salento population. The golden couple of cinema, husband and wife in life, will support the awareness campaigns on the prevention of oncological diseases promoted by the Lecce Cancer League, as well as the completion of the Ilma Center directed by the oncologist Giuseppe Serravezza. The couple also created two video messages to support the Institute and research. Hackford also underlined in particular the need to say a firm “no” to smoking as the first fundamental prevention action. “The contact with the two artists took place in a few days”, explained the oncologist Serravezza. “When we presented them with the Ilma Center and the activities carried out by Lilt of Lecce, the couple, despite being abroad and busy on set in different places, immediately and willingly accepted our invitation. A demonstration of extraordinary sensitivity and commitment, translated into concrete action in no time. For this we extend our most sincere thanks to them.”
Video Archive – Miscellaneous – Centro Ilma Institute for Cancer Prevention (2024)