Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren teamed up in a movie for the first time in 2019's London-set thriller The Good Liar.
Based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Searle, the movie sees an accomplished con artist (McKellen) meet a widow on an online dating site. As she seems to be falling for his charms, her son starts to suspect something isn't quite right.
If you fancy giving it a watch (or a rewatch), The Good Liar is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days, following its airing last night (November 19) on BBC One.
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If you don't want to watch The Good Liar on BBC iPlayer, you can also watch the thriller right now on Netflix in the UK and Ireland if you're a subscriber.
Directed by Bill Condon (who has also worked with McKellen on Mr Holmes, among others), the movie also stars Russell Tovey, Jim Carter, Lucian Msamati, Céline Buckens and Phil Dunster.
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Back in 2019, Mirren said teaming up with McKellen for the first time on screen (they've starred on Broadway together) was one of the factors in signing up for the thriller.
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"It was a combination of my costar Ian McKellen and of course the director, Bill Condon. It's a very interesting script, a wonderful, twisty thriller that I thought would be fun to do," she told EW.
"It's nice to do a film about old people that's not about Alzheimer's or cancer, if you know what I mean."
The Good Liar is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
