You know what Helen Mirren holds in her hand in the trailer for HBO miniseries “Catherine the Great”? “Absolute power.”
That’s not the only great line of from the Oscar winner in the one-minute, 10-second preview.
“When I was young I dreamed of freedom, I dreamed of breaking chains,” Catherine (Mirren) says. “But, as you get older your choices narrow. So, instead I gave us an empire, but I knew exactly what I was doing.”
And this warning: “I will not share my throne with anyone.” That includes you, Grigory.
Watch the trailer above.
In the four-part historical drama, co-produced by HBO and Sky, Mirren plays the 18th-century Russian empress who is described as “strong-minded, independent, brilliantly intelligent and sexually liberated — the definition of the modern woman.”