Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren on Their ‘MobLand’ Season 2 Return: “Pure Lunacy”

MobLand is back on Paramount+ for its second season, the one Tom Hardy was always going to be a part of . Hardy’s Harry Da Souza serves as the faithful fixer for Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, who are played by Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — and it sounds like the Irish crime family is really going to need their guy going forward.

Now both out of jail (“miraculously,” Mirren tells The Hollywood Reporter ; “I was wondering how that was going to happen,” Brosnan adds), the Harrigans are back on their bullshit.

“This second season kicks off with a bang — many bangs, actually — at the dog track, and they are in full Harrigan mode,” Brosnan teased to THR . “And yet there is an undercurrent and a malevolence that is coming upon the stage.” Related Stories TV Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren Say They Were "Blindsided" by Tom Hardy Reports: "Without Tom, We Don't Have 'MobLand'" Movies 'A Talent for Murder' Review: Helen Mirren Is Cranky Crime Author Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn's Deliciously Twisty Psychological Thriller

Some of that malevolence comes through Kat Macallister’s (Janet McTeer) own fixer, Frankie (Johnny Flynn), who, in a fun twist, is a serious germaphobe. (You don’t tend to stay super clean in Frankie’s and Harry’s line of work.)

Toby Jones also returns for season two as corrupt former cop Colin Tattersall; Mirren called the trio of supporting stars “some of the really, truly great British actors.” Brosnan agreed, saying they’re each “at the top of their game,” and that it is “beautiful to watch them work.”

“I can’t believe our good luck that we’ve got these people on board,” Mirren added.

Is it luck, or is it the skill of scribe Jez Butterworth that attracts such talent? Maybe a bit of both.

“We’re all incredibly appreciative of how brilliant our scripts are, written by one of the — if not the top — British playwright,” Brosnan said of his showrunner.

As talented as the entire call sheet may be, it is undoubtedly the top three — Hardy, Brosnan and Mirren — who make MobLand work. Brosnan, who boasts a hell of an IMDb (even outside of James Bond ), says he’s “never played a character like Conrad .”