VIDEO: Helen Mirren Talks Playing Newest Role Written for a Man

Dame Helen Mirren has graced stage and screen for more than five decades, becoming an Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner along the way. In “Eye in the Sky,” a new film about drone warfare, she plays a military colonel, a role originally written for a man. The actress stopped by this week's TODAY to explain why she played the role “as written,” but that her being a woman brought the moral issues raised by the film into deeper focus.

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