Even before Helen Mirren had officially been cast in The Fate of the Furious, she had expressed interest in appearing in the franchise, specifically wanting to play a villain.
Vin Diesel, who plays Dominic Toretto, was all too willing to bring her abroad, and by June 2016, she was officially cast.
Given how Dom was shown in the first The Fate of the Furious trailer to being blackmailed into serving Charlize Theron’s Cipher, this could mean that crime runs in the Shaw family and Mirren will indeed be playing a villain, but nothing is confirmed yet.
However, the biggest details surrounding Mirren’s character that have been publicly revealed is that she shot a scene with Jason Statham in the back of an ambulance and there’s a photo of her and Diesel close together, suggesting they’ll share a scene.