MOVIE SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS
Helen Mirren is in the sequel to the superhero hit of 2019, but don’t ask her what it’s about. “It’s complicated,” she joked to Graham Norton on his chat show. The 77-year-old plays goddess Hespera, who battles Shazam (Zachary Levi) and his foster siblings turned superheroes. “I loved the heart of it and the sweetness of it,” Mirren told The One Show. Lucy Liu and Rachel Zegler also star. (In cinemas now)
Sophie Cookson ‘I NEED A FRESH CHALLENGE!’
THE STAR OF THE KINGSMAN FILMS RETURNS TO OUR SCREENS IN A NEW PERIOD PIECE
Film buffs might recognise Sophie Cookson from her growing resume on the silver screen. The 32-year-old landed the role of espionage goddess Roxy Morton in 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service – starring alongside Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Samuel L. Jackson – straight out of drama school, and the parts have been rolling in ever since.
Right now, the English actress is starring in The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a four-part drama series that follows a young woman and her journey through a Jamaica plantation to the Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his wife, Madame Marguerite Benham (played by Cookson). Here, the star tells WHO all about her exciting new role…
Tell us more about your character and how you prepared for the role?
Madame Benham is eccentric, smart and playful, trapped by her circumstances in 1800s London in a loveless marriage to an emotionally abusive husband with no power of her own, desperate to be a writer and live a varied, educated life. All that suppressed angst makes an interesting character to play.
What do you hope audiences take away?
I hope they enjoy a different narrative and lens on London. Sara Collins has written a beautiful, haunting script looking at the world through the eyes of a young female, ex-Jamaican slave. Maybe it will
