• Helen Mirren stars in Netflix's "The Thursday Murder Club," available on the streamer on Thursday. • She said it's harder to play a fictional character than one based on a real person. • "With the queen, you just have to sound like the queen, walk like her, dress like her," Mirren told BI.

In 2006, Helen Mirren took on a daunting, weighty role: portraying the Queen of England in "The Queen." She was awarded in kind with an Oscar for her efforts.

But Mirren, 80, thinks there are roles that are far more difficult to play than the queen, and her character in her new Netflix movie "The Thursday Murder Club" is one of them.

The film follows a group of amateur detectives cracking cold cases in an English retirement home. As a fan of Richard Osman's book series of the same name, Mirren k

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