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Twenty-one years after Margaret Thatcher bowed out of politics in the UK, her life is being portrayed in a Hollywood film starring Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep.
Streep practically gets a nod every time she steps on the silver screen, but some have been outraged that an American actress is portraying one of Britain’s most well known leaders. However, according to early reviews, the actress has put in a fine performance in The Iron Lady.
The Guardian’s Xan Brooks said earlier this week that Streep’s performance “Is astonishing and all but flawless” – but adds that Streep “is the one great weapon of this often silly and suspect picture.”
Nevertheless, not all had praise. Lord Tim Bell, a former PR adviser to Thatcher, says of the film, “I can’t be bothered to sensationalize this rubbish. I can’t see the point of this film. It’s only value is to make some money for Meryl Streep and whoever wrote it. I have no interest in seeing it. I don’t need a film to remind me of my experiences of her. It is a non-event. It won’t make any difference to her place in history of the fact of what she did.”
The movie also stars Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher and Richard E. Grant as Michael Heseltine. Earlier this month Streep said she is in “awe” of Thatcher and playing her was the biggest role of her career. “It took a lot out of me, but it was a privilege to play her, it really was,” she said.
The film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is told from the point of view of Lady Thatcher living in London several years after the death of her beloved husband Denis. The Thatcher era from 1979 to 1990 was a time of social and economic change for Britain.
I very much look forward to this one!
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