Helen Mirren has admitted that she wants to tackle a more edgy film role by working with director Quentin Tarantino.
Speaking to the Daily Express, the 67-year-old actress said: "I'd love to work with Quentin. I love his movies and I can handle a gun."
Mirren, who is starring as the legendary director's wife Alma Reville in the biopic Hitchcock, recently admitted that she had an uncomfortable encounter with Alfred Hitchcock early in her career.
The Oscar-winning actress said: "When I was a very young actress, just starting out, I was sent for an audition - or a meeting with him. I don't think he would have auditioned me; I think he either thought you looked right or you didn't."
She continued: "I was arrogant and ignorant and, at that time, he was just not my kind of film director. I was into Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini; those were the directors I loved. I was, you know, as one is when one is young, just ridiculously self-opinionated.
"So, I didn't really like him, and I know he didn't like me very much. He certainly didn't cast me. He took one look at me and went, 'Oh, good God. She's going to be a nightmare'."
Hitchcock is now playing in the US and opens in Ireland on February 8, 2013.
