Helen Mirren Begged Vin Diesel To Join Fast & Furious
Helen Mirren reveals she begged Vin Diesel to join the Fast and Furious franchise and what appealed to her about the action movies. The Oscar winner stars in the series as Magdalene «Queenie» Shaw, the mother of Deckard, Hattie and Owen Shaw who holds a fearsome reputation as a crime boss in London. Mirren first appeared in the franchise with The Fate of the Furious in which she meets with Diesel's Dom Toretto to work out a deal to help him save his son from Cypher in exchange for her sons' freedom.
Mirren's Queenie would return in the Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw in which she has been locked up in prison at some point between the events of the previous film and expresses her desire to see Jason Statham's titular character reunite with his government agency sister Hattie. The movie would notably end with the two visiting her in prison and potentially breaking her out, a point seemingly confirmed in F9: The Fast Saga in which she is on the outside and returning to her life of crime. Dom visits Queenie in the hopes of learning information on his estranged brother and new enemy, John Cena's Jakob, before being delivered directly to him.
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Mirren recently caught up with The Hollywood Reporter for a career-spanning interview covering her range of acclaimed performances in her 50-plus years of working. When asked about her involvement in the Fast and Furious franchise, Mirren revealed she begged Vin Diesel to let her join the series and her excitement for having been a part of it thus far. See what Mirren shared below:
«I didn’t ask, I begged! I think I was at some function, and he was there, and I got introduced to him. And I was shameless: 'Oh God,
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