F9's Helen Mirren Recalls When She ‘Begged’ Vin Diesel To Bring Her Into The Fast And Furious Movies
msn.comFast & Furious franchise. She debuted as Magdalene “Queenie” Shaw in The Fate of the Furious, and reprised the role in Hobbs & Shaw and last year’s F9.
While Vin Diesel said back in 2017 that Mirren asked him if she could appear in the Fast & Furious movies, the actress has admitted that it was actually a matter of her begging to get in on this brand of blockbuster entertainment.
Back in early 2015, Helen Mirren said that it was her “great ambition” to be in a Fast & Furious movie, and a few months later, Vin Diesel said he’d be game to bring her aboard.
Eventually the two actors met at a party, and here’s how the encounter unfolded, per Mirren’s words to THR:Helen Mirren took her shot when she ran into Vin Diesel out in the world, and it paid off for her.
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