Upcoming Murder Mystery Adaptation Reunites 2 Movie Legends 21 Later Year

Summary Helen Mirren and Celia Imrie reunite in The Thursday Murder Club after previously starring together in Calendar Girls in 2003.

Both actresses have had prolific careers in-between projects, with Mirren earning the title of Dame and receiving Oscar nominations.

The upcoming film brings together a talented cast of veteran actors, including Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley, set in a cozy English village.

The upcoming film The Thursday Murder Club reunites two major actresses after more than two decades. Based on the popular Richard Osman novel of the same name, The Thursday Murder Club transports audiences into the fictional English village of Fairhaven, where there is a luxury retirement community called Cooper’s Chase. Several denizens of this cozy corner see their lives enmeshed when they embark on a search for truth and justice after the suspicious murder of a property developer.

Playing the septuagenarian stars is a talented group of veteran actors who have contributed their talents to numerous other projects. The main Thursday Murder Club cast is set to include Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as Ron Ritchie and Elizabeth Best, Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif, and Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft. While all four actors have prolific careers, two of them have appeared together in a notable project from several years back.

Thursday Murder Club Reunites Helen Mirren & Celia Imrie 21 Years After Calendar Girls

The Nigel Cole Movie Was Their First One Together

Those two actors are Mirren and Imrie, who previously starred together in the British comedy Calendar Girls in 2003. Directed by Nigel Cole, Calendar Girls is a story about a media phenomenon created when a group of women decide to make a nude calendar to raise money for their local hospital. Mirren played Chris and Imrie played Celia in this risque comedy drama. It was largely successful upon its release, spawning a West End stage play in 2008, and a West End musical in 2015.

What Helen Mirren & Celia Imrie Have Done Since Calendar Girls

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Both actresses have gone on to have active careers in between Calendar Girls and The Thursday Murder Club. For Imrie, this has taken the form of starring in, for example, the comedy romance film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The actress also played Mrs. Quickly in the 2005 film version of Nanny McPhee. In the past few years, Imrie has dedicated her talents to projects including the Dan Levy film Good Grief, the romantic comedy Love Again, and four episodes of the acclaimed series The Diplomat.

In the same year that she starred in Calendar Girls, Mirren became Dame Helen Mirren. This venerable status has earned Mirren the utmost respect as an actress, exemplified through her Oscar nominations for films such as The Queen and The Last Station, the former of which garnered her a Best Actress award. Helen Mirren's movies also include pop culture projects such as Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Fast X, and as the narrator in Barbie. It will be great to see two actresses with such prolific careers — Imrie and Mirren — reunite together in their twilight years in The Thursday Murder Club.