🎭 Culture Aug 28, 2026 · Brittany Allen

Helen Mirren is playing Patricia Highsmith?! Watch the trailer for A Talent for Murder.

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Helen Mirren is playing Patricia Highsmith?! Watch the trailer for  A Talent for Murder.
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This morning, fans of both Patricia Highsmith and Dame Helen Mirren have cause to rejoice. The trailer for Anton Corbijn’s new Ripley-adjacent film, A Taste for Murder, is out now.
The film stars Alden Ehrenreich, Olivia Cooke, and an almost unrecognizable Helen Mirren. It follows a thirsty agent (Ehrenreich) who heads to the Swiss hinterlands to convince Highsmith (Mirren!) to write one last installment of her famous Ripley series. But things—as they tend to, in the Highsmith universe—tak

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