Helen Mirren Drops Major MobLand Season 2 Update—And Fans Are Thrilled

Helen Mirren shows no signs of slowing down. The Oscar-winning actress, who has spent the past year juggling an array of high-profile projects, has just delivered a criminally good update on the future of MobLand. And while she admits the whirlwind of work has been “a bit of a car crash” of overlapping projects, Mirren is clearly thriving in her nonstop work mode.

A Whirlwind Year for Mirren

In the last 12 months, Mirren has seamlessly moved between television and film, appearing in 1923 and MobLand, shooting features like Switzerland and Goodbye June, and now promoting the star-studded adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. Speaking candidly on Thursday night, she reflected on the breakneck pace:

“Sometimes it’s a bit of a car crash of projects, and they sort of pile up. And you have very little time in between, which actually is a good thing. You get into a work mode, and you just live in that work mode for maybe five months, six months. So it’s been great, actually — all very interesting, very different projects.”

Her latest release, The Thursday Murder Club, directed by Chris Columbus, teams her with Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie in a darkly comic whodunnit about retirees who find themselves embroiled in a real-life murder case.

A Reunion With Pierce Brosnan

For MobLand, Mirren once again shares the screen with Pierce Brosnan — their third collaboration after decades of friendship that stretches back to 1980’s The Long Good Friday. Brosnan was effusive in his praise of Mirren:

“She’s beautiful; she’s human; she’s real; she’s sexy; she’s fun; she’s fragile; she’s everything that you would want in a woman and fellow actor. We get on together; we just kind of hit the ground running.”

Mirren was equally warm in return:

“I’m so, so fond of Pierce. He’s such a great guy… We just work in the same way, the two of us, we get on with it. We don’t make a fuss. And I just adored working with him. So I’ve been very lucky in the last year. First of all, I had Harrison Ford, who was fantastic, and then Pierce Brosnan. I’ve been a very lucky actress.”

Season 2 on the Horizon

For fans of MobLand, the biggest news came when Mirren confirmed that Season 2 is indeed moving forward. While she hasn’t seen scripts yet and production hasn’t started, she revealed cameras are expected to roll “at the end of October.”

That means Jez Butterworth’s gritty London underworld saga—already a surprise juggernaut for Paramount+—is officially on its way back. Since its debut, MobLand has attracted more than 26 million viewers worldwide, reclaiming the platform’s top spot and even unseating Taylor Sheridan’s lineup of streaming powerhouses.

No Retirement in Sight

Despite her hectic schedule, Mirren isn’t entertaining thoughts of slowing down anytime soon:

“I mean, sure, I love to not work. Don’t get me wrong; I love not working… But no, I mean, if there’s a project that I want to do, and if I have the mental and physical capability to do it, I’ll do it.”

For fans, that’s the best news of all: Helen Mirren, one of cinema’s most enduring and versatile stars, is as busy—and as unstoppable—as ever.

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