Helen Mirren “begged” Vin Diesel for her ‘Fast & Furious’ role
Fast & Furious franchise.The actor made her debut in 2017’s The Fate Of The Furious as Queenie, the mother of Deckard (Jason Statham), Owen (Luke Evans), and Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby), and went on to star in 2019’s spin-off Hobbs And Shaw as well as Fast & Furious 9.Speaking in a new interview, Mirren, a self-confessed car lover, said pleaded with Diesel – who plays Dominic Toretto in the blockbuster franchise – to help her get the part.“I didn’t ask, I begged!” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I think I was at some function, and he was there, and I got introduced to him. And I was shameless: ‘Oh God, I’d just love to be in one of your movies! Please let me be in it.’“And then Vin, with that beautiful, deep voice of his, said: ‘I’ll see what I can do.’ And he did it for me.