out in the show this holiday season is a film about the last days of leo tolstoy it's called the last station the bride acting out of the all star cast role this film numerous nominations and enthusiastic reports and will use in the media this film reveals an undertone to tolstoy but what did it teach the filmmakers we will ask the actress who played the wife on the other toss in the danish telly american. dame helen mirren was born as helen lydia miron of her paternal grandparents were russian gentry fled the country after the bolshevik revolution and she worked her way from school performances and amateur theatre to end up joining the legendary royal shakespeare company seven years ago helen was granted the title of dame by queen elizabeth the second and just three years later she played queen elizabeth the second in the movie the queen she's the only actress ever to have to trade both with elizabeth on the screen. helen thank you very much for being with us it's a privilege to have you on the show it's a pleasure hello well first of all we know that you are of russian origin your f

winning actress helen mirren about her role in the last station a film looking at the final days of leo tolstoy the picture of an unknown tolstoy but what horizons did open up for the actors themselves it's coming your way next in the spotlight. the. title again the welcome to spotlight the into the show on.

the restoration the film that you are presenting here in moscow the film bad life and leo tolstoy. what was so so great so wonderful so intriguing in the michael hoffman's. screenplay that that you really decide to take part well it was. very multi-layered my reason for wanting to do it first and foremost it was a wonderfully written script it was funny it was humane it was beautifully absurd. with just scene after scene that were just delightful scenes risks really you read a script where you think well the beginnings good. you know usually you read a script because the beginnings good in the middle and the ends good or the other way around this i thought was an absolutely beautiful beautifully constructed and realized script and then of course it was a fantastic character and on top of it being a fantastic character it was a very different character to the queen and that was sort of almost it wasn't the last role i'd played but it was the last sort of very visible role i played and you're always as an actor looking for a role that is going to be the opposite of the last thing you

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