‘MobLand’: Helen Mirren Reveals How Maeve Really Feels About [Spoiler]’s Murder
[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for MobLand Episode 7, “The Crossroads.”]
The Harrigans wanted a war, and they got one, with more severe consequences than anyone could’ve expected — well, anyone except maybe Maeve, the master manipulator of the family.
For Helen Mirren, the opportunity to play this character, who’s introduced each week next to a statue of Medusa, has been an unexpected treat.
“I’ve never played anyone like Maeve before. I’ve never got close to it,” the decorated star told TV Insider. “I guess the closest I ever got was playing Phaedra in the theater. [There are] elements of Maeve in Phaedra — the sort of do-or-die-ness of the character — but I didn’t know going into it, really, what she was going to be like… As the scripts came, and it revealed to me what this character was, I just have to relax into playing her, and I love playing her. It’s one of my favorite characters ever, which is a terrible thing to say, but it is.”
In last week’s episode, we learned it was Maeve who secretly made the call to Richie (Geoff Bell), serving him Conrad’s (Pierce Brosnan) beloved daughter Seraphina (Mandeep Dhillon) on a silver platter as a sacrifice to make up for what happened after the other call she made — to have Vron’s (Annie Cooper) car exploded. Maeve knew Brendan (Daniel Betts) would be with his half-sister during the Antwerp meeting that Richie’s crew would intercept, so she could reasonably expect the danger she was putting her firstborn son in.
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Still, Maeve did make a toothless demand to Richie for the protection of her eldest. However, her threats against him rang hollow right away, considering the man had already lost his wife and son and wanted revenge against Conrad. Perhaps predictably, then, Maeve’s plea landed on deaf ears, as, in the end, Richie ordered Jaime’s crew to put a chainsaw through Brendan’s head, too, and Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) didn’t arrive in time to stop his murder.
