First Look: Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith in ‘A Talent for Murder’

Mirren studied photos and a few videos of Highsmith that she found online—“God bless YouTube,” she says—to get to know the character. She was especially struck by a video from when Highsmith appeared on the late-night TV show After Dark in 1988. She was with another guest whose daughter had been murdered. “She has this very disturbing interest in this man’s backstory of a member of his family being killed, and it’s very uncomfortable,” says Mirren. “She was very much…