Helen Mirren Is Very Nervous About Filming Fast 8

The 70-year-old confessed she's very nervous about her role in the upcoming eighth instalment of Fast and Furious and it's not going behind the wheel that has her frightened. “I’m very nervous,” she admits, “because when you’re going on to a set with people who have been doing this for [so long], basically, they all know each other, they’ve worked together, they know what they’re doing. I’ll be, you know, the newcomer, the newbie.”

“I’ve only got one day, and I’ll probably f— it up. I think they’ll be nice to me. I hope they’ll be nice to me. I wanted to be driving, but unfortunately, I’m not. Maybe that will come in the future, in Fast and Furious 12. I’m probably one of the few people on the set who know how to drive a gear shift car. I doubt the Rock knows. But I do. I know how to double declutch.”

The flick, directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Vin Diesel, is due out next spring, April 14, 2017. Universal Pictures has already confirmed that Fast 8 will be the beginning of the final trilogy, with Fast & Furious 9 hitting theaters on April 19, 2019 and Fast & Furious 10 closing out the blockbuster franchise on April 2, 2021.

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