The Tempest comes under the latter, with the typically malerole of Prosperoturnedfemale, renamedProspera, andplayedby the unquenchably super HelenMirren.
Prospera has two minions at her disposal the sylph Ariel (Ben Whishaw), a translucent pale hermaphrodite who digitally skitters through the air, and the very earthbound and lustful slave Caliban (Djimon Hounsou), an African man covered with mud.