Dame Helen Mirren’s ‘Prospera’ Role Dedicated To Women  Dame Helen Mirren |
Dame Helen Mirren who was last seen in drama flick, ‘Love Ranch’ is eagerly looking forward to the release of her upcoming flick based on the play by William Shakespeare, ‘The Tempest’.
The 65-year old actress revealed that her role ‘Prospera’ is dedicated to all the women who have struggled because of their gender.
Helen Mirren quoted, "Women have been punished for being powerful for many centuries and I thought that was the remarkable thing about making Prospero into Prospera. You can bring in that history of female struggle.”
"We can see now in the extreme fundamentalist states, whatever religion they are, that they want to exclude women from education," she added.
"An educated female sex is dangerous for the status quo, they believe. Women with any interest in education are persecuted for being witches, herbalists, evil. I thought of all these women, now and throughout history, as I was playing Prospera," she said.
In Julie Taymor’s ‘The Tempest’ the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera. The movie is scheduled to hit the screens in December 2010.
