the last station

Helen Mirren on how difficult it was to play someone who was seen as annoying without alienating her as a character, and to do that by showing humanity and reality, on how the film isn't an historic drama about the Tolstoys but a story about love and marriage, on why there aren't more stories about old love and how most films have a happily ever after, on Anne Marie Duff being pregnant and how happy she is for both her and James McAvoy

Helen Mirren on there being more roles for older women nowadays, on the film and how well it was constructed at the The Last Station Premiere at London England

Helen Mirren on her father being Russian and how he was in the same class as the characters in the film, on how she felt when she first came onto the set she was walking into an old family photograph, on how much she knows about Tolstoy's books