Conversations We Love: Helen Mirren

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It won't be long until we return to our regular broadcasting, but while we take advantage of the last days of summer break (as we hope you've been able to do, preferably with something refreshing in hand) - we've chosen to air one of our most special interviews to date. This July, we were lucky enough to sit down with non other than Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren, who visited Israel to promote her new film, Golda, in which she portrays the female Israeli prime minister during the Yom Kippur War. Listen to learn how Mirren got in character, how she deals with ageism in Hollywood, plus - why she'd join the protestors against the judicial overhaul. “Golda” opens in theaters on August 25.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:09.9	It's Unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:14.2	I'm Unlevy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:16.8	And this is one of the conversations we have loved.
0:20.5	As you know, through the summer, we are dipping back into the Unholy Archive, as it were,
0:26.1	listening back to some of the conversations that I think listeners,
0:29.5	the responses we got suggested, listeners cherished particularly.
0:33.2	And here's one with one of the legends of the British theatre and screen,
0:38.8	but also now really of world cinema, Dame Helen Mirren.
0:43.3	She has played a huge roster of iconic figures,
0:47.6	including the Queen of England, Elizabeth II.
0:51.6	But she is playing most recently in a new film, Golda Meir, and she is somebody
0:57.2	who takes her work tremendously seriously immersed herself in the history of Golda Meir, particularly
1:02.9	the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which the film is about. And she really went there.
1:09.4	Yeah, you know, it's interesting that I have a lot of people
1:12.9	who come up to me and talk about certain episodes that they love. This is a conversation, not only
1:17.7	that people really love, but also there's a specific question that you asked, Jonathan, that people
1:22.1	keep quoting to me as being such an interesting question and her answer being so fascinating as well. You asked her
1:28.4	about the differences between Golda and Margaret Thatcher. And she said to you that she thought
1:33.6	that what drove her was not the ambition, the fierce ambition. She was actually, you know,
1:39.2	wary of being the prime minister. And I remember while she was saying this, I was sitting across from
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