Helen Mirren In Agamemnon (1978)
With her eye-catching shoes, flowing locks, and dramatic makeup, the beauty was hardly identifiable when she appeared in Agamemnon as Cassandra. She said On the cinema screen, your face is 10ft high and 6ft wide. It’s huge. As a cinemagoer, I like to see beautiful faces up there — it’s a pleasure. But there’s also a story and entertainment, and one wants variety in that You also want, as an audience member, to see people that you recognize and can identify with.”
Helen Mirren In Agamemnon (1978)
Helen Mirren In Antony and Cleopatra (1965)
Sporting a dress and a black wig, as she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra’s stage production at London’s The Old Vic, the actress looked majestic. As roles for women shift in actual life, she assured The Guardian, so you’re going to see a change in the entertainment business. Whenever we happen to see a [female] U.S. president, and a worldwide aquatic biology specialist appears on TV, it’s a woman on the television or the female director of a petroleum corporation. I guess what’s galling to me is when you see someone who is expected to be a high-level physician.
Helen Mirren In Antony and Cleopatra (1965)
