Joel Jagger sat down with Dame Helen Mirren to discuss the film, and inevitably the sad loss of her co-star Alan Rickman came up.
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Alan tragically passed away at age 69 in January months before the film would receive its release.
Helen was on ITV’s This Morning on Monday when she admitted that her military costume in new film Eye In The Sky made her anxious about the size of her derrière.
Speaking on “The Andrew Marr Show”, she said: “Alan was a genius character actor and he could play all these awesome baddies”.
Thriller Eye In The Sky sees the 70-year-old as Colonel Katherine Powell, a woman in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya.
One of the last films worked on by the late Alan Rickman will premiere in London tonight.
Eye In The Sky is directed by Gavin Hood, who has also been at the helm of blockbusters such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ender’s Game. It’s not Alan in one of his brilliant character roles where he could disappear into the role. His wit, his humanity, his intelligence.
“Here it really is Alan”.
“In many ways, it’s not a flashy role, but he fills it with such nuance and dignity and authority”.
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“It’s just very sad for all of us that he’s not here to talk about the film, because he felt very strongly about the themes and the ideas the film raises and he would have sounded far better talking about it than I would, with that handsome voice”. “She’s much better at it than I am”.
