What role Mother Ginger (and possibly Mirren) will play in the adaptation is still up in the air.
Academy Award winner Dame Helen Mirren, who played ballerina Galina Ivanova in the 1985 ballet and dance classic White Nights, is in talks to join the cast as Mother Ginger.
Mother Ginger is best recognized by her enormous hoop skirt that her children, the Polichinelles, emerge from in order to join the grand number.
Morgan Freeman is attached and will play Clara’s uncle, Drosselmeyer, a mysterious clock maker who gifts the Nutcracker to her.