Helen Mirren wants to ‘do a DNA test’ with Harrison Ford to reveal if they’re secretly related

Helen Mirren has revealed that she wants to 'do a DNA test' with Harrison Ford to see if they’re secretly related.

While Mirren, 79, and Ford, 82, play onscreen couple Cara and Jacob Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel series 1923, the pair have a history of working together going decades back now.

Speaking to People in a new article published on Sunday (16 March), Mirren, who last worked alongside Ford back in 1986 in The Mosquito Coast, explained: "Harrison and I have a weird thing."

Ford and Mirren star as an onscreen couple in the Yellowstone prequel, 1923 (Paramount+)

Speaking of their friendship, the actors always had what she compares to the relationship with 'your best friend in college that you haven't seen for like 30 years, but [once] you're back, [it's] exactly [the same], only even better, actually. Even better'.

"I don't know if you feel the same, Harrison, but I certainly feel like that, that there is this weird, connected[ness]," she continued before wondering: "Maybe we should do a DNA [test].

"Maybe we are brother and sister in the end or something like that."

Ford then chimed in: "Well, that makes it even more bizarre.

"Maybe cousins. That would be better."

Speaking of the 'main attraction' of 1923, the Hollywood legend said it 'was a chance to work with her again', prompting Mirren to agree.

"The reality is that we met 40 or 50 years ago when we were doing Mosquito Coast. And so we meet now 40 years later. I've been told that she's already signed up. She's been told I'm already signed up," he explained.

Mirren joked about the 'weird connected[ness]' she and Ford share (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor / Getty Images)

"But somehow, we find ourselves here. And there are 1,000,000 different kinds of actors. They're [as] different as dentists are to one another — but when there's a fit, you feel it," Ford went on, speaking of his and Mirren's onscreen chemistry. "It's just a perfect bit of casting."

The pair also described the plot line of 1923 as a 'rare' love story as it's not the relationship stage that's typically shown onscreen.

"In movies, people get married or they meet-cute and they fall in love and they have hot sex or whatever, and then it's all over, happily ever after. Well, this is the ever after," Mirren noted.

"Now we're seeing what happens at the end of that story, and you very rarely see that onscreen, but it's actually something that people love to see."

Agreeing, Ford added: "These two are partners as much as lovers, and depend on each other for things that are not part of their quiver of arrows.

"And it's an extraordinary relationship that Taylor [Sheridan] has written for us to inhabit."

1923 is currently available to stream on Paramount+