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Irish Independent
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
What to watch on TV and streaming today: 1923, The Damned United and Young Sheldon
1923 RTÉ One, 9.35pm It's Montana, but not as we know it There's just no stopping the Yellowstone universe. Despite the fact that some observers claim the western genre is dead, the show's creator, Taylor Sheridan, has milked it for all it's worth — and is continuing to do so. As well as the original, present day-set series, which starred Kevin Costner as John Dutton III, the patriarch of a cattle ranch-owning family in Montana, Sheridan has devised two forthcoming sequels — The Madison and Y-Marshals — as well as two prequels. The first of those was 1883, and now the second, which premiered on Paramount+ three years ago, is about to make its RTÉ debut. Thirty-six years after making The Mosquito Coast together, it reunited Harrison Ford with Helen Mirren. Once again they play a married couple in a tale that takes us back to an earlier generation of the Dutton family. We follow Jacob (Ford) and his Irish wife Cara (Mirren) as they navigate their way through the early 20th century, encountering many of the same problems as those who come after them, including pandemics and drought, as well as Prohibition and the Great Depression. 'It's great at this point in my career, and this point in my life — which is, you know, towards the latter end of it, without a doubt — to find and to be offered great roles like Cara Dutton,' says Oscar-winning star Mirren. The wonderful news is that a second series has already been made; fingers crossed it won't be long before it's heading our way. 24 Hours in A&E Channel 4, 9pm Three mothers discuss their incredible stories. The first reveals how she beat cervical cancer at the age of 19, the second describes the grief she felt after her son's death, and the third explains the challenges and rewards involved in raising a child in need of extra care. Better Call Saul TG4, 10.30pm The fourth run of the Breaking Bad spin-off only ended last week, but the fifth is here already. The 10-part series begins with Jimmy now fully embracing his Saul Goodman persona. He also launches a new business strategy that annoys Kim, while Lalo hunts down the mysterious Michael. To Catch a Stalker BBC One, 11.40pm & 12.30am Zara McDermott's two-part documentary examines the disturbing rise in the number of reported stalking cases. She meets four women currently living in fear, as well as the police officers struggling to bring the perpetrators to justice. The Damned United BBC Two, 12am In 2006, acclaimed author David Peace published a largely fictionalised account of Brian Clough's disastrous 44-day spell in charge of English football giants Leeds United; three years later, it was adapted for the big screen. Michael Sheen is brilliant as Clough, with Colm Meaney rather uncanny as his rival, Don Revie. Timothy Spall also stars. Young Sheldon Netflix, streaming now Bear with me; both Disney+ and Netflix have had six seasons of Young Sheldon for years. Now, after an excruciating wait, Netflix has got its mittens on season seven. If you're rolling your eyes thinking, 'Hasn't that Big Bang offshoot been around forever?' Yes, it has, but it's far (far) superior to its predecessor. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Season 2 Reunion Special Disney+, streaming now How's that for a title? Following season two's dramatic finale, host Nick Viall brings #MomTok and #DadTok back together for revelations, unseen clips, and a surprise twist. Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel Netflix, streaming now I don't know about you, but I'm not sure where I'd be without our Tuesday Trainwreck installment. The American Apparel brand soared in the early Noughties with salacious ads and ethical wear, but behind the scenes, chaotic leadership and misconduct allegations sent the brand into a downward spiral. For more stark viewing, Attack on London: Hunting The 7/7 Bombers also arrives today. Shark Whisperer Netflix, streaming now Whether you deem her a social media opportunist or a 'changemaking' conservationist, you can't quibble with the (literal) name Ocean Ramsay has made for herself. Melding striking visuals with a close character study, the film dissects the ethical and ecological dilemmas at the heart of environmental activism. Perspectives from scientists, indigenous voices, and conservationists — on all sides — reveal the complexity of Ramsay and the issues she raises. Squid Game Netflix, streaming now Brace yourselves… In the wildly anticipated third and final season of Squid Game, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae, aka player 456) returns. Haunted by incremental loss, he's determined to end the deadly competition once and for all. His clash with the enigmatic Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) escalates into a (surprise, surprise) grave battle of strategy and morality, as new games and old enemies collide. With the expected level of twists — including a baby being added to the mix and the viral Gachapon craze (plastic vending balls to you) putting in a pivotal appearance — the stakes are high. As surviving players face progressively brutal choices, the line between justice and tainted vengeance increasingly blurs. Can humanity survive the harshest reality? As the world awaits the final answer, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk promises a powerful conclusion to the global phenomenon. I think we'll be the collective judges of that. The Charles Ponzi Story AppleTV+, streaming now We've all heard of Ponzi schemes, but what do you know of their namesake? He was a broke immigrant based in 1920s Boston, who rocketed to wealth and infamy in mere months by orchestrating what would become known as the infamous scheme, one of history's boldest financial frauds. For more stories inspired by true events, try Smoke starring Taron Egerton, John Leguizamo and Greg Kinnear.
New York Post
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘MobLand' star Helen Mirren blasts ‘grumpy' actors, praises co-stars Pierce Brosnan, Harrison Ford: ‘F— do you have to be grumpy about?'
Helen Mirren didn't hold back in voicing disdain for 'grumpy' older actors while heaping praise on co-stars Pierce Brosnan and Harrison Ford. The 79-year-old actress played Cara Dutton, the wife of Ford's ranch owner Jacob Dutton, on the 'Yellowstone' spinoff '1923,' and she portrays Maeve Harrigan, who is married to Brosnan's crime boss Conrad Harrigan, on the new Paramount+ series 'MobLand.' During an interview with Fox News Digital, the Academy Award winner shared her thoughts on what had surprised her about working with Ford, 82, and Brosnan, 71. 'I think with both of them, as I say, it's the way they behave on set, professionally,' Mirren said. 'Harrison would sit around and chat with the cowboys,' she added. 'And it was cold, it wasn't comfortable. He didn't go off to his trailer and sit in a nice, warm, comfortable trailer. He would sit in the cold with everybody else. You know, chatting to the guys, for example.' 3 Academy Award winner Helen Mirren shared her thoughts on working with Harrison Ford and Pierce Brosnan, and her opinion on 'grumpy' older actors. AFP via Getty Images 'And Pierce — Pierce just is so great. And you know what the other thing is great about them both? They both love what they do. And I've noticed, in my profession, a lot of older actors kind of get grumpy. Actresses don't, but actors do. 'They get grumpy, and I think, what the — excuse my language — f— do you have to be grumpy about? You're working, you've been paid a lot of money, everyone's looking after you. Well, what do you got to be grumpy about? Harrison and Pierce are so not grumpy. They're just — they love what they do. They're positive about it. It's what they do, and they love it.' Mirren has earned praise for the chemistry she shares with Ford and Brosnan when they played her on-screen husbands. While speaking with Fox News Digital, Mirren reflected on the secret behind her strong rapport with the two actors. 3 'Pierce just is so great,' Mirren said about her 'MobLand' co-star. Jason Bell/Paramount+ 'You don't develop chemistry. It's there or it isn't, you know,' she explained. 'It just totally depends on what sort of person they are, what sort of person you are.' 'And they are two really, really great guys,' Mirren continued. 'I think it also comes from respect, you know, professional respect and respect for the character of the other or maybe love for the character of the other person. And both Harrison and Pierce share a sort of commitment to their craft — professionalism, generosity on set. There's no sort of, 'Oh, I'm a big movie star' thing going on at all. They're both great guys.' Prior to filming '1923,' Mirren had co-starred alongside Ford in the 1986 movie 'The Mosquito Coast.' In a December 2022 interview with the U.K. newspaper the Times, Mirren explained why their working dynamic on the '1923' set was 'very different' from the first time that they had teamed up. 'The relationship was obviously very, very different then because Harrison was already an enormous movie star, and I was a theater actress out of London and nobody had heard of me,' Mirren said of the 'Star Wars' actor. 'Now our relationship is very different because I've sort of caught up with him,' she added. 'Well, I'll never catch up with him completely, but I'm a little bit closer than I was.' Brosnan and Mirren had both previously appeared in the 1980 British gangster movie 'The Long Good Friday,' which marked the future James Bond franchise star's film debut. In a recent interview with TVLine, Mirren recalled that she never met Brosnan while filming 'The Long Good Friday,' noting that 'he played a very small role, nonspeaking role — important little role, but nonspeaking — and I was never in any scenes that he was in.' However, Mirren had the chance to work with Brosnan when they co-starred in the upcoming Chris Columbus-directed movie, 'The Thursday Murder Club.' While speaking with Fox News Digital, Mirren shared that Brosnan played a pivotal role in her decision to join the cast of 'MobLand,' which also stars Tom Hardy. 'I was working with Pierce Brosnan on a great film called 'The Thursday Murder Club' that is coming out very soon but was shot before 'Mobland,'' she recalled. 'And we were both working together for the first time really, properly together. We both got sent the script at the same time, so we could talk to each other about it. 'Oh, Pierce, I've been sent this. I hear you've been sent it. Yeah, what do you think about it?' 'Well, I don't know. What do you about it?'' 'So, a lot of those sort of conversations went on,' Mirren continued. 'But the fact that Pierce was going to be in it was hugely influential on my decision.' 3 Keith Cox, David Glasser, Dame Helen Mirren, Guy Ritchie, Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Chris McCarthy attend the Global Premiere of 'MobLand' at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on March 27 in London. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/WireImage 'He's the nicest, best, most professional, great guy,' she added. 'And, and at my point in life, the people I work with have become really very, very important.' Mirren said Hardy's involvement in 'MobLand' was also a factor in her choice to sign on for the series. 'Tom Hardy, a seriously great film actor that I admired as an audience so much and always rather secretly wanted to be a movie with him,' she said. 'So. a combination of things like that.' On 'Mobland,' set in modern-day London, Mirren and Brosnan play the matriarch and patriarch of the powerful Harrigan crime family, while Hardy portrays their 'fixer,' Harry Da Souza. Over the course of the series, the Harrigans engage in an escalating war with a rival crime family 'in a battle that threatens to topple empires,' according to a plot synopsis. During her interview with Fox News Digital, Mirren raved about playing the ruthless character of Maeve. 'I love Maeve,' she said with a laugh. 'I love Maeve. Oh, my God, I'm having such a good time playing her. I was saying to someone just now, it's like a very beautifully made comfortable coat or dress or something that I adore putting on, and I just feel great in it. And that's what Maeve is like.' 'Mobland' is streaming on Paramount+ with new episodes released weekly on Sundays.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren play the reality of the 'happier ever after' dream in 1923
Reuniting years after their 1980s movie 'The Mosquito Coast', Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren are playing the reality of the 'happier ever after' dream in their new drama.
Fox News
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Harrison Ford's ‘1923' co-star says actor's real-life plane crash impacted his acting
Helen Mirren saw Harrison Ford's plane crash trauma firsthand while filming a scene in Taylor Sheridan's "1923." Ford was on the cover of the Wall Street Journal's February issue to discuss his six-decade acting career, and his "The Mosquito Coast" co-star, Mirren, weighed in on her experience working with the acclaimed actor. Mirren recalled the very first scene with Ford in "1923," which was the aftermath of an ambush against the Dutton family. Ford's character, Jacob Dutton, was left riddled with bullet wounds. "He's been carried into the kitchen, dying and covered in blood, and later Harrison did say to me, 'That was how I was after the accident,'" Mirren told the outlet, referring to his plane crash. "I think, maybe, going through that experience just gave him a very different understanding of what it is to be a sentient human being." Ford has touched on his near-fatal plane crash in 2015, which affected his acting in "1923." "When the scripts were coming, I was struck by how many major moments in my character's life had a substantial and not coincidental shadow of the same things in my life," Ford said during an interview with People in 2023. "He's been carried into the kitchen, dying and covered in blood, and later Harrison did say to me, 'That was how I was after the accident.'" "I watched a rehearsal with a stand-in being brought into the kitchen, and Helen [Mirren] coming in, sweeping everything off the counter, taking command." "Even when I talk about it now, it emotionally relates to the airplane crash I had and what my wife went through," he added. Although the "Indiana Jones" actor has been flying for years, Ford's extreme plane crash in 2015 was the incident that loomed over his family the most. Ford suffered from head injuries, broken bones and a scraped arm when his vintage plane crashed into a Los Angeles golf course. At the time, Ford reported an engine failure during his flight. The "Star Wars" alum has courageously moved on from the life-altering crash and is proud to tell the tale through his character in "1923." "There have been five of six of those kinds of things that have shown up in the script, and it's really remarkable," Ford told People. "There's something that feels bigger than myself, and it's great to be able to serve these ideas." The "1923" prequel is the second spinoff to the popular series, which follows the lives of the Dutton family as they run the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. This series focuses on the Dutton family surviving the early 20th century, including the Spanish flu pandemic, the historic drought in America, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression. Mirren and Ford play Cara and Jacob Dutton, a married couple who manage a family ranch in Montana. The couple faces several challenges during their journey, but remain resilient throughout. Ford revealed that he signed on to the "Yellowstone" prequel before ever seeing a script – the same thing he did with "Shrinking" and "Captain America: Brave New World." Per the WSJ, Ford signed on to these projects "based on the reputation of the shows' creators and the broad plans they laid out for him." "Again, no script," he said. "Why not? I saw enough Marvels to see actors that I admired having a good time." In 2022, Mirren revealed that she also agreed to star in "1923" before reading a script. "I wasn't hugely familiar with the whole thing. What interested me about ('1923'), I did see '1883,' and that era of American history has always really fascinated me," she said during an interview with Variety. Mirren added that co-star Ford had the same sentiments and agreed to be a part of the Sheridan franchise without looking at the script first. "The fact that Harrison was going to be involved was very important for me. Both of us committed to it without really reading any scripts. "We didn't really know what we were signing up for… the specifics of what we were signing up for. We had trust in Taylor's extraordinary abilities as a writer, and we took a leap of faith," Mirren added.
