Helen Mirren Shines at Golda Special Screening — See the Look!

Helen Mirren stepped out in style at a special London screening of her new film Golda.

The Oscar winner, 78, posed for photos on the red carpet at Picturehouse Central on Thursday.

For the event, Mirren wore her hair down to her shoulders with a smooth side parting. The Barbie the narrator has donned a tailored black suit with a white blouse underneath. The unbuttoned jacket of her suit revealed a loose black tie.

Lady Helen Mirren.

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In the historical drama, Mirren portrays the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as she overcomes the challenges of the 19-day Yom Kippur War in October 1973, when Egypt, Syria and numerous other countries in the Middle East launched a surprise attack on Israel.

This leaves the Prime Minister with a skeptical cabinet and a complicated relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (played by Liev Schreiber).

GoldaThe trailer was released at the end of July and featured an almost unrecognizable Mirren.

Helen Mirren as former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

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In August, A woman in gold the actress opened up DuJour magazine about how the power of makeup helped her transform for the role. The film’s makeup department “went through various manifestations” to get her look right for the role, she explained.

“Eventually we got to a point where we felt it was enough, but hopefully not too much. You’re straying into dangerous territory with makeup like that,” Mirren said. “It’s obviously there and you can’t say it’s not there. But on the other hand, the audience knows that I’m not an Irish woman living in Montana.”

Mirren, who won an Oscar for the role of Queen Elizabeth II Queenshe added that sometimes the make-up made her feel more like Meir than she expected.

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“I’ve never done anything like this before. It was an adventure,” she said. “I got so used to being that person during the day that when all the makeup came off and I saw myself as I was, I forgot that I looked like that.”

“There’s a picture the crew took of me and Golda, and we’re in identical outfits,” added Mirren. “She turns to me and says something, and I look forward with a cigarette. It’s really powerful.”

Before getting used to her role as Prime Minister, Catherine the Great The alum, who is not Jewish, addressed the criticism he received portraying Meir.

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“That was definitely a question I had before I accepted the role,” Mirren said Daily mail in February 2022.

Her statement was in response to Dame Maureen Lipman’s argument that “ethnicity should be a priority” in such roles.

Mirren noted that she expressed her concerns with Golda directed by Guy Nattiv.

‘Gold’ writer Nicholas Martin and Dame Helen Mirren.

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“I said, ‘Look, Guy, I’m not Jewish, and if you want to think about it and decide to go in a different direction, no hard feelings. I’ll absolutely understand,'” Mirren recalled. “But he really wanted me to play the part, and off we went.”

“My opinion was that if a character’s ethnicity or gender drives a role, then that ethnicity should be prioritized, as it is now with other minorities,” Lipman said in part.

“I believe that’s a debate that needs to be had — it’s a completely legitimate one,” Mirren said in response, before posing the question: “You know, if someone who’s not Jewish can’t play a Jew, does someone who’s Jewish play someone who is isn’t he Jewish?”

“There is a lot of terrible injustice in my profession,” Mirren added.

Meir, who was Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974, died in 1978 at the age of 80 from cancer of the lymph nodes.

Golda it was released in the US on August 25.

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