The (American) Iron Lady

[marillion]

Wow.. Meryl Streep really looks the part...

She has really developed a knack for for portraying other ladies. I'm not a big Streep fan in general, but her Julia Childs was a lot of fun. Sorry I can't post a picture from my office computer, but here's the link:

Streep to play Mrs. Thatcher

So.. With all the overblown flap trap about a Brit playing Superman in the new movie, what do Brits think about an American playing a real British icon?

 

[Dac]

An Icon to some - evil bitch to many. This film won't go down to well over here methinks.

 

[Pingfah]

So.. With all the overblown flap trap about a Brit playing Superman in the new movie, what do Brits think about an American playing a real British icon?

Fine, Streep is a talented actress. I mean that IS the point of acting, to pretend to be somebody else. If she can pull it off I don't see what difference it makes. It's not like Brits are going hungry for work in Hollywood.

 

[WillsBabe]

what do Brits think about an American playing a real British icon?

I don't have a problem. If she can make me loathe her with every fibre of my being she'll have nailed it.

 

[Avon]

rejoice

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Streep will be fine as Margaret; it's Jim Broadbent as Dennis that I'm not getting.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Interesting casting.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Al Pacino was born to play Arthur Scargill -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strike

 

[marillion]

Streep will be fine as Margaret; it's Jim Broadbent as Dennis that I'm not getting.

The guy who played him at the very end of "For Your Eyes Only" was pretty much a dead ringer for him, but yeah.. Broadbent is an interesting choice.. He'll have to diet..

 

[Captaindemotion]

what do Brits think about an American playing a real British icon?

I don't have a problem. If she can make me loathe her with every fibre of my being she'll have nailed it.

She is one of the finest actresses of all time, but not even she will be able to provoke the utter loathing from the pit of my soul that that woman so easily brings to the surface with her very appearance and sound.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Suit yourselves.

Margaret Thatcher. About time.

Here's to an awesome portrayel of an awesome woman!

 

[Admiral2]

An Icon to some - evil bitch to many. This film won't go down to well over here methinks.

Among libs who thought "An Inconvenient Truth" was brilliant. For the rest of us it should go over great, especially with a powerhouse like Streep in the role.

 

[bluedana]

Meryl Streep is a transformative actor. She has the gift of becoming a character so thoroughly, you forget you're watching her. I think her portrayal will be as deep and multi-faceted and surprising as Helen Mirren's Elizabeth II was in The Queen.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Some more castings news:

Richard E Grant as Michael Hesseltine

John Sessions as Ted Heath (I wonder if Meryl Streep knows about Sessions' old piss-take routine about her)

I really am now expecting to see Al Pacino cast as Arthur Scargill, the godfather of coal.

ETA: More casting news from the Daily Fail:

"Olivia Coleman will be daughter Carol (son Mark will not appear . . . he’ll be heard at the end of a phone, probably after he was found in the desert).
Politicians who appear in and out of Mrs Thatcher’s life will be played by Anthony Head (Geoffrey Howe), Angus Wright (John Nott), Richard E. Grant (Michael *Heseltine) and Julian Wadham (Francis Pym).
Roger Allam will play Thatcher’s image guru Gordon Reece, and Michael Pennington will portray Labour Party leader Michael Foot."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...re-dazzler-returning-stage-Anna-Christie.html

Anthony Head as Geoffrey "Where are my trousers" Howe -- not getting that either.

 

[marillion]

The cast lineup is reading like a list of "The remaining British actors not cast in the King's Speech and/or Harry Potter."

 

[Captaindemotion]

It would be cool if Richard E Grant played Hezza in Withnail mode - 'Whitelaw, you total cunt!'

 

[Holdfast]

I gather the movie will primarily focus on the Falklands. I can understand the theatrical appeal of a relatively concise war with a surprise start, some frantic diplomacy (with important US and French cameo roles to add a bit of colour), military ups and downs and eventual military (and electoral) victory. It was a good war in terms of being relatively easy to sell to the public at the time, and still remains so in terms of a dramatisation.

But I think a more sweeping look at Thatcher's role in changing the entire political frame of reference in this country in a far deeper way than any of her immediate predecessors (or indeed, any of her successors so far) would have been good. The country still essentially operates along the lines (actually, even more so) set out during her time as PM, despite a moderately long period of opposition rule in between then and now. That's probably more of a TV (mini-)series or drama-documentary rather than a movie, admittedly.

Cast sounds good, actually. I definitely think Broadbent, Sessions and Grant will do their jobs especially well. Streep will be good, I'm sure; she always is.

 

[Professor Zoom]

^Suit yourselves.

Margaret Thatcher. About time.

Here's to an awesome portrayel of an awesome woman!

I didn't realize they were making science fiction....

 

[Samurai8472]

It makes me think of "The Queen 2"

Helen Mirren VS Meryl Streep

FIGHT!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Wow.. Meryl Streep really looks the part...

She has really developed a knack for for portraying other ladies. I'm not a big Streep fan in general, but her Julia Childs was a lot of fun. Sorry I can't post a picture from my office computer, but here's the link:

Streep to play Mrs. Thatcher

So.. With all the overblown flap trap about a Brit playing Superman in the new movie, what do Brits think about an American playing a real British icon?

Nothing really, i certainly would not spend good money to see anything related to Thatcher, but i hope Streep can capture at least some of the deeply uncaring aspects of the woman for anybody silly enough to be born poor or working class, as a whole.