Helen Mirren on Joining Yellowstone’s Universe With 1923

When Helen Mirren was growing up, as the daughter of a cab driver in a working-class household about an hour east of London, she had no time for or interest in Hollywood’s cowboy content. Her disdain had nothing to do with the actors, the setting, or the guns, per se—but the woeful lack of dimensionality for the few women featured onscreen. “I never liked Westerns, because the women were always so awful,” the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony winner laments to Vanity Fair by phone. “They always had breasts [on display] in…awful dresses. Either [they were] nice schoolteachers or the tart… Read Full Article