Helen Mirren has nothing however rave critiques for her experiences working with Bruce Willis.
The Oscar-winning actress says she “absolutely loved” teaming up with Willis on the 2010 action-comedy Red, which follows a retired black ops CIA agent who reunites with former colleagues to seek out out who’s making an attempt to assassinate him.
“He taught me a lot about acting, actually,” stated Mirren whereas selling her new comedy-drama, The Duke.
“When I came into Red, I’d never really done that kind of movie before, and I was quite nervous. Number one, Bruce was incredibly welcoming and he immediately made me feel comfortable, and I will always be grateful to him for that. And then I would watch him, and Bruce was a brilliant actor. Brilliant.”
Willis’ household introduced final month that the longtime motion star is “stepping away” from appearing at age 67 after being recognized with aphasia, a situation that may impression a particular person’s skill to speak.
He and Mirren additionally labored collectively on the 2013 sequel Red 2. Mirren praised Willis’ “sense of timing” as an actor and stated she “really tried to learn from him”.
“I can understand, we don’t want Bruce to leave our screens because he’s such a wonderful presence on screen,” Mirren, 76, stated. “But also he’s given us an absolute, enormous, lifetime of work, and we should be grateful for that.”
Mirren’s subsequent film, “The Duke,” explores the real-life theft in 1961 of the Francisco Goya portray “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington.” Mirren stars as Dorothy Bunton, the spouse of Kempton Bunton, a working-class man who stood trial for the portray’s disappearance. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
