Watch Helen Mirren read poetry for charity

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Helen Mirren has taken part in Dolce & Gabbana's new 'Made at Home' series, which hopes to highlight and explore how the shared experience of lockdown has united us all.

For her part in the fundraising project, the British actress filmed herself reading 'Now Is the Time', a poem by Hafez. "I'm going to read you a poem by a Sufi poet, a Persian poet, called Hafez, who lived in the 12th century," Mirren says. "It's incredible the way his words have such power and meaning for a soul today, particularly at this moment in time when the whole world is experiencing what we're experiencing." Mirren's poetry reading is part of Dolce & Gabbana's attempt to celebrate the creativity that can be found, even through this difficult period, in our own