"The Queen" (2006) - Film about Elizabeth II and the Death of Diana

[Elspeth]

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.

 

[Skydragon]

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.

You can preorder at Amazon.co.uk. The .com site is normally far more 'ready'.

 

[Elspeth]

Yes, I can see the preorder option at the .co.uk site, but the British DVDs don't work in American players. I'm just surprised that there's no preorder at the .com site yet especially since the publicity it got at the Oscars with Helen Mirren's win.

 

[ysbel]

Most cities in the U.S. have video shops where you can get a European DVD converted to the US format.

But I'm sure that with Helen Mirren's Oscar, the Queen will be released for U.S. players.

 

[RachelD]

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.

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?
By the way...I just loved actor Michael Sheen (played Tony Blair)! What can I say? I love the guy no matter what character he plays!
Sorry, got off topic!

 

[Skydragon]

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?

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'.

 

[RachelD]

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'.

Really? Hmmm...I still can't remember where I heard this...oh well! They were wrong!

 

[Elspeth]

...and the ubiquitous 'un-named source'.

He really does get around, doesn't he?

 

[BeatrixFan]

Sheen is quite a good actor. His portrayal of Blair before now has been fairly good and his portrayal of Kenneth Williams was spookily flawless.

 

[RachelD]

He really does get around, doesn't he?

Is this reference to a certain 'butler'?

 

[sassie]

No, that is totally inaccurate. Mirren has never met or spoken to the Queen by her own admission.

I thought Helen Mirren was a Dame? Wouldn't she have met the Queen when that title was invested upon her?

 

[ysbel]

I thought Helen Mirren was a Dame? Wouldn't she have met the Queen when that title was invested upon her?

Maybe Prince Charles stood in for the Queen?

 

[RubyPrincess168]

I haven't seen this yet, but after all the buzz I'm thinking of buying/renting it when it comes out. I was surprised to hear in a interview that Helen Mirren admitted to be raised in an anti-monarchist household. As soon as they announced her name as the winner of an Oscar, I imagined QE2 watching on television and saying to some underling "Inviter her to the palace for tea."

 

[Skydragon]

Mirren denies reports of royal rendezvous

Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren has emphatically dismissed reports that she's been invited to visit Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in the wake of her success in the movie 'The Queen'. Oscar-winner Mirren was said to have been asked to lunch with the British monarch along with screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Stephan Frears, who also both received Academy Award nominations.

 

[Skydragon]

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.

 

[BeatrixFan]

Helen at the airport from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/entertainment_enl_1172660677/img/1.jpg

She appears to be in costume for her next role as Nora Batty.

 

[Warren]

But she has an Oscar in her hand so it doesn't matter what she's wearing.

 

[sassie]

At any of the investitures there is not normally time for in depth conversations.

I didn't ask that.

 

[Elspeth]

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.

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.

 

[selrahc4]

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.

Helen has said she met the Queen and had a brief conversation with her:
link to article

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.

 

[Skydragon]

"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?"

I replied ----
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.

I don't know what everyone else was reading or replying to, but the original question was whether Mirren had an interview with the Queen who supposedly helped out with this film, which is totally inaccurate. This is after all a thread about the book/film The Queen.

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[Skydragon]

Mirren went 'commando' at Oscars

Dame Helen Mirren didn't have underwear on at the Oscars.

The actress has revealed she went 'commando' when she collected her Best Actress award for playing Queen Elizabeth II in 'The Queen' on Sunday.

Bank Holiday honour for Dame Helen

Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren could have a Bank Holiday named after her - in her native Essex

 

[sara1981]

Hello Magazine articles
Euphoric Helen receives a royal homecoming
Euphoric Helen receives a royal homecoming

 

[Suonymona]

She just received a "knickknack" in California.

What a wonderful spirit!

 

[Elspeth]

The DVD still isn't available at the US Amazon site, but the Barnes and Noble website has it available to preorder and claims that it's coming out on 24 April.

 

[Toledo]

I was one of many with my fingers crossed hoping she would get that oscar. Even in the last minute I thougt of an Oscar upset, like when Cate Blanchet's Elizabeth lost to G. Paltrow's lesser acting abilities in Shekaspeare in Love.

Now that Helen Mirren has won every award there is in one year for playing Queen Elizabeth I and II she becomes the most suceful movie queen around. And that includes for me the first time I noticed her, she played Morgan Le Fey in Excalibur.

On the Queen and queen meeting:
What do they do in a British tea invitation?
How informal can it get?
Anyone knows if the Queen will have her guests over a room with a painting of Queen Elizabeth I looking down on all of them?

 

[gfg02]

James Cromwell: The Crew of 'The Queen' Hated Princess Diana
James Cromwell: The Crew of 'The Queen' Hated Princess Diana - Cinematical

 

[sirhon11234]

What a piece of trash that James Cromwell is. And I liked him in the show six feet under.

 

[ysbel]

Methinks James Cromwell may be exaggerating here.

Helen Mirren said in an interview that she came from a family that were anti-monarchists and was quite surprised with the affinity she had for the Queen.

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.

There probably was a tumble on the set with the screenwriter being so anti-royal and anti the Queen. His so strong stance against the Queen probably brought out the monarchist in people who thought previously they weren't monarchists. Like James Cromwell, who bills himself as a socialist.

 

[sassie]

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.

But, Cromwell didn't say that Helen Mirren loathed Diana. He referred to people "working on the set", by which I think he meant the crew (according to the headline) and not his fellow actors.