
The actress has spent the past six weeks in Israel learning the language and studying intensely for her part in the movie “The Debt” where she plays a Jewish spy. This is not the first time Helen Mirren does intense research for a part. She told the story of how her husband forced her from the set of the movie “Love Ranch” to a brothel: “My husband was the director and he grabbed me kicking and screaming to the brothel. ‘You’ve got to do this! You’re going whether you like it or not.’” It’s a good thing that Helen Mirren is doing the research out of her own free will now. It would’ve probably been a real drag, and I use the term lightly, for her husband to have to “convince” her to do it.
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