Exclusive | Connie Nielsen caught a major blunder on Robin Hood set and if shed return to Wonder Woman

She just can’t wait to be queen. Danish actress Connie Nielsen is taking on another regal role — this time, in a period piece for the new MGM+ drama “Robin Hood.” “It is my third queen.At least.

At least the third queen,” Nielsen quipped to The Post.She previously played Queen Hippolyta in both “Wonder Woman” and “Wonder Woman 1984,” in addition to Lucilla in “Gladiator” and “Gladiator II.” “Once you’ve played one, probably it becomes more easy to cast you in the second, and the third,” she said. Premiering Sunday, Nov.2 (9 pm), “Robin Hood” is a gritty period piece set in 12th century England.

It follows Rob (Jack Patten), a Saxon forester’s son and Marian (Lauren McQueen), the daughter of a Norman lord, as they fight for justice in Middle Ages England.He leads a band of outlaws and crosses paths with the Sheriff of Nottingham (Sean Bean), while Marian infiltrates the courts, where she meets the queen, Eleanor (Nielsen). Since Nielsen is an old hand at period dramas, she rescued the production from making a major blunder. “I came on set on one of the first days, and I’m looking at my regal chambers.

And what do I see? I see a giant globe of the world!”She went to the director and noted, “As I recall, Columbus didn’t really happen until like 1494 or something like that.At the time, I think they thought that if you went too far in one direction, you fell off the flat earth.

And so the globe seems a wild, wildly optimistic view of her court.We might want to remove that!” And they did.

“They immediately carted it off,” she recalled.Although “Robin Hood” and “Gladiator” both saw her playing ruling women in period pieces, she sees them “very differently.”“There’s a softness in Lucilla that I’m not bringing into Eleanor.There’s a steeliness in Eleanor that’s based off having been a leader her whole life,” she noted. “At a time when being a leader meant you had the power of lif...