Helen Mirren Gives Shoutout To “My Tribe Of Actors’ At Jerusalem Film Festival As SAG-AFTRA Strike Hits: “Actors Are Wonderful People”
deadline.comHelen Mirren dedicated a Jerusalem Film Festival life-time achievement award to actors around the world on Thursday, just an hour before a looming SAG-AFTRA strike was made official.
The actress received the honorary prize ahead of the Israeli premiere of Guy Nattiv’s Golda as the festival’s opening film, in which she stars as iconic late stateswoman Golda Meir. “I would just like to say.
I am a member of a tribe and members of my tribe can be found in Germany, in Belgium, America and they are Palestinians, and they are Israelis, Africans,” she told the 6,000-strong crowd at outdoor opening ceremony in the shadow of Jerusalem’s Old City walls. “They are the tribe to whom I really want to dedicate this award and that is the tribe of actors.
Actors are wonderful people.” Mirren gave a special mention to the Israeli cast members on Golda who included Lior Ashkenazi as David ‘Dado’ Elazar and Rami Heuberger as Moshe Dayan. “I was lucky enough to work with fantastic Israeli actors on Golda.
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