You can preorder at Amazon.co.uk. The .com site is normally far more 'ready'.Elspeth said:If it's coming out on DVD in the USA in a couple of weeks, I'm surprised it's not available to preorder at Amazon yet.
BeatrixFan said:Can you imagine the dialogue between the Queen and Dame Helen?
Queen : So Dame Helen, tell me, did you enjoy making money out of what was for my family and I a truly painful incident? And whilst we're about it, why don't you tell me why you constantly call me Elizabeth Windsor and why you said that my dress sense made you cry? Leave your Damehood at the door on the way out dear.
No, that is totally inaccurate. Mirren has never met or spoken to the Queen by her own admission. Nor has anyone connected to this film claimed or suggested that the Queen co-operated with this production in anyway.RachelD said:I had heard (can't remember who, what, where or when) that QEII actually helped out with this film. Helped out in the sense that she contributed some insight into her life and feelings during that difficult time. I think Dame Helen Mirren had an interview with her...is that right?
Skydragon said:No, that is totally inaccurate. Mirren has never met or spoken to the Queen by her own admission. Nor has anyone connected to this film claimed or suggested that the Queen co-operated with this production in anyway.
The only people the writer/director claimed had helped, were a couple of un-named ex royal servants, a couple of un-named civil servants and the ubiquitous 'un-named source'.
Skydragon said:...and the ubiquitous 'un-named source'.
Elspeth said:He really does get around, doesn't he?
Skydragon said:No, that is totally inaccurate. Mirren has never met or spoken to the Queen by her own admission.
sassie said:I thought Helen Mirren was a Dame? Wouldn't she have met the Queen when that title was invested upon her?
We were talking with regard to the film, but as ysbel has already said Charles may have stood in. At any of the investitures there is not normally time for in depth conversations.sassie said:I thought Helen Mirren was a Dame? Wouldn't she have met the Queen when that title was invested upon her?
Skydragon said:At any of the investitures there is not normally time for in depth conversations.
Skydragon said:We were talking with regard to the film, but as ysbel has already said Charles may have stood in. At any of the investitures there is not normally time for in depth conversations.
Elspeth said:The question was whether she'd met the Queen, not whether they'd had time for in-depth conversations. I think that being invested with a DBE would count as meeting whichever royal did the investing.
Yes, she's met the queen. "It was at a polo match," Mirren says. "I had all of a minute with her. I was with Chloë Sevigny and Chloë and I were being introduced at the same time. And I said to the queen, 'This is Chloë Sevigny. She's come all the way from Los Angeles. And I'm Helen Mirren and I've come all the way from Battersea'." That got a smile.
ysbel said:So I don't necessarily think that Mirren just loathed Diana. Its possible James did, but then the directors thought that's a useful emotion for an actor to have when playing Prince Philip.