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DOCUMENT 1 INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT (extracts) July 12th, 2015 04:10 PM ET FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: For the past four months, as many as eight times a week, the Queen of England has graced the boards of Old Broadway right here in New York City. Not the actual Elizabeth II, of
DOCUMENT 1 INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT (extracts) July 12th, 2015 04:10 PM ET FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: For the past four months, as many as eight times a week, the Queen of England has graced the boards of Old Broadway right here in New York City. Not the actual Elizabeth II, of course, but as good an approximation as many people have seen. A superb performance by Dame Helen Mirren. Mirren has now 5 embodied the current Queen three times: in the film The Queen, for which she won the Oscar, and now two runs of the play, The Audience, first in London, then the just-ended New York run. […] ZAKARIA: Pleasure to have you on. DAME HELEN MIRREN, ACTRESS: Thank you. 10 ZAKARIA: When you do a portrayal like that of the Queen, or some of the other ones you've done, who are historical figures, it's always struck me that, for an actor, this is a different challenge because, if you are doing a character in Harry Potter, it's an imaginary thing, you can make your own version. MIRREN: Of course, yes. 15 ZAKARIA: Here there is an actual historical truth, as it were. There is somebody. Are you trying to get to that truth? MIRREN: Well, of course. Absolutely. […] Elizabeth II, she’s alive. Everybody knows what she sounds like, talks like, walks like. And so it's incumbent upon me to at least fulfill that - the impersonation side of the role. […] It's actually extremely controlled, all of the images 20 of the Queen, including the video. But, and so, in a way, looking at the videos didn't really help me much. And then I thought, you know what, why not go back and look at the portraits, because she has been painted a lot. And I thought, you know what, I'm just another portraitist, actually. […] ZAKARIA: But you did think, in her case, you had to get the impersonation right, by which 25 you mean things like the accent. MIRREN: Oh, yes, of course. Like the accent. […] It’s a very, very cut-glass accent1, absolutely. It's absolutely like that. It's terribly, terribly sort of exact. And it's almost impossible to sort of over-do it. And now her accent is still what we would call in England, posh. But it's - it's more relaxed. 30 ZAKARIA: You talk a lot in the play - there is much talk