Helen Mirren says she was 'so excited' to film bedroom scenes with Harrison Ford for '1923'

Harrison Ford previously told Stephen Colbert that Helen Mirren was "still sexy" nearly 40 years after first playing love interests in the 1980s.

• The cast of the Paramount+ original "1923" spoke at The Wrap's 2023 Award Season Screening Series. 
• Helen Mirren spoke about working with Harrison Ford, who plays her onscreen husband.
• Ford previously said Mirren was "still sexy" nearly 40 years after they first played love interests. 

Helen Mirren said she was "so excited" to film bedroom scenes with Harrison Ford for the Paramount+ series "1923."

On Thursday, the "1923" cast spoke at The Wrap's 2023 Awards Season Screening Series that was shared to YouTube. At one point during the panel discussion, Mirren talked about a scene where her and Ford's characters, Cara and Jacob Dutton, shared a bed.

"I had to be in the bed with him, you know. I'm dressed up to here, but I'm lying there and I'm thinking, 'I'm in bed with Harrison Ford,'" Mirren, 77, said. "I was so excited, I can't tell you. I had to pretend to be cool. Don't tell him. Promise me."

Mirren called Ford "amazing" and said she partially agreed to participate in the series because she heard he was already involved. The pair first played love interests in the 1986 film, "Mosquito Coast." 

"The stature he's held, as a major, humongous movie star, all that time, at the same time as somebody who doesn't love the limelight," she said. 

She added: "He's come to a place where he can be easy with other actors. It's immensely generous and incredibly professional. Not remotely spoiled movie star, at all. I genuinely love him. If I wasn't married…"

Ford had previously praised Mirren during a February interview on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." 

"Yeah, she is still sexy," Ford said of Mirren. 

"There's a lot of physical action, and she just jumps right in and does stuff you don't imagine Helen Mirren would do — Dame Helen Mirren," Ford told Colbert. 

"1923" is a spinoff of "1883," which served as the prequel to "Yellowstone." The series premiered in December 2022, and Screenrant reported that Paramount+ renewed the series for season two.