Dame Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes couldn’t resist sharing some laughs as they reunited for the New York premiere of their new film, Woman In Gold.

The pair, who previously worked together when Katie was 19 years old in Teaching Mrs Tingle, both star in Simon Curtis’ wartime drama – and the former Dawson’s Creek star couldn’t resist hinting about more collaborations.

“I love Helen and we are in this movie so briefly that I would love to work with her again in a bigger capacity,” Katie said.

“Because when I worked with her before we just had a wonderful time. She is so … she’s as nice as she is talented, and that says a lot because she is a big talent,” she added.

Katie was pretty in pink in a floral dress by Zac Posen, while her co-star wore an embellished black gown by Badgley Mischka.

Dame Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes
Dame Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes (Evan Agostini/Invision)

Helen, who currently plays Queen Elizabeth in the Broadway production of The Audience, plays Jewish Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann in Woman In Gold.

The film, which also stars Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Bruhl, follows Maria’s fight to reclaim a famed Gustav Klimt painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, after it was stolen by the Nazis and then appropriated by Austria after the war.

Helen found an incredible spirit in the role, saying: “The primary one I think – I think it was the symbol of what had been taken away from her, in the sense of not financial, but in the sense of her memories, her family, had been stolen, taken from her.”

Maria flees Austria during World War II, but gathers the courage to get back what is rightfully her possession.

“Well, you know I’m acting, so it’s easy for me,” Helen explained. “It must have been very frustrating and difficult for Maria Altmann. You know, the Viennese really didn’t want to give up this painting. It was as important to Vienna as the Statue of Liberty is to New York. They fought very hard to keep it.”

Katie said she was thrilled to be part of the film, because it had a social significance.

“It is – because it feels like it’s very meaningful to so many people. The story is true, and the story is so inspiring and it’s such human triumph over such evil. And also told through art, which is incredible, so it was really wonderful to be a part of,” she said.

Woman In Gold opens in UK cinemas on April 10.