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Helen Mirren Signed on to Star in ‘1923’ in the Strangest Way of Her Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Typically, when an iconic
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  Speaker 1: or big name actor is up for a role, there's
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  Speaker 1: no audition process. They're sent the script, read it, either
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  Speaker 1: say yes or pass on the project. And since Helen
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  Speaker 1: Marin's breakout role was back in nineteen eighty, it's what
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  Speaker 1: she's grown accustomed to. But when she was approached to
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  Speaker 1: start in the hit show nineteen twenty three, the experience
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  Speaker 1: was anything but typical because of how different show runner
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Sheridan likes to do things. Helen tells Deadline. When
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  Speaker 1: her agent told her about the opportunity, she asked to
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  Speaker 1: read the script and was told there's no script, adding
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  Speaker 1: that's unheard of. How can I agree to something if
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  Speaker 1: I haven't read a script. The answer came back that
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  Speaker 1: Sheridan writes for the people he knows are playing a role.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed a very sensible way of approaching it. So
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to meet him because after we met, he
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  Speaker 1: might not want to write a role for me at all.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Texas, had a wonderful time, really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: his company. So I jumped in the deep end and
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  Speaker 1: had a go. I'm thrilled I did it because it's
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest experiences of my life. Season one
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen twenty three streaming on Paramount Plus. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.