Word association time. I say 'method acting' and you say ..?
OK, maybe Helen Mirren isn't the first actor to spring to mind, but according to reports she is going for immersion to get herself in character for her latest film, The Debt, in which she is playing an Israeli secret service agent.
Mossad agent Mirren is learning Hebrew and Jewish history so as better to understand her character, who is on the hunt for a Nazi war criminal. Unlike in the case of iconic screen star Lindsay Lohan, there is no suggestion of imminent conversion.
What troubles me, even at this early stage in production, is how wonderfully mad the Hollywood-is-controlled-by-Jews theorists are going to go about this film. It seems to have every ingredient to make it into political dynamite. Watch this space.
