London, Jan 27 (ANI): Dame Helen Mirren has revealed that she got really emotional after stepping onto the set of her new film 'The Last Station'.
The veteran actress, who plays the wife of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in the upcoming drama, said that she was moved because the actors dressed in period costume for the movie reminded her of her own Russian ancestors.
She confessed that the experience of filming in Europe held extra meaning as she had just finished investigating her Russian roots on her father's side.
"I'd just very recently gone through an amazing experience going back to Russia. With the help of a journalist in Russia, I discovered my family's estates in Russia. My sister and I also visited my grandmother's gravesite. I had visited that cemetery a couple of years before, but I had no idea where her grave was, so I just wandered around, incredibly moved just to be where she was buried. And then the journalist found the grave," the Daily Express quoted her as saying.
"The most amazing thing is having just experienced all that, walking on the set and finding myself looking like and walking into one of my family photographs, with all the extras dressed exactly the way the people are dressed in my grandfather's photographs, myself dressed as my great-aunts were dressed in my grandfather's photographs. That I found very very moving," she added. (ANI)
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