Helen Mirren Attracted To Love Ranch Story

Helen Mirren has revealed that it was the Love Ranch story that attracted her to the movie.

The Oscar winning actress stars alongside Jo Pesci in the real life story of a married couple who open the first legal brothel in Nevada.

She told Collider: "I thought it was a great story. When my husband told me the story and told me that it was true that this had actually happened, I was blown away. I thought why have I never heard this. This is an amazing, wonderful, dramatic story. This is incredible.

"So really, the story brought me in plus the fact - because in the end I’m self-interested - I thought it was a great role. There are not that many great roles for women, full stop.

"There are certainly not a lot of great roles for women of my age and so, who would say no."

"I loved the fact that my husband wanted to do it and he drove it. He was the driving force from beginning to end with this movie.

"In the development of the script, in the financing of the film and the making of the film, he was absolutely the driving force, and without Taylor, it would have never gotten made."

And the film kicks off a busy period for the actress who has already completed The Tempest, in which she stars as Prospera, and The Debt with Sam Worthington.

She has also lent her voice to animation movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, which is in post production alongside Red, which sees her star with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, and Brighton Rock.