Posted on 12/29/2011 2:52:01 PM PST by iowamark
MERYL Streep takes us behind the scenes of The Iron Lady in our world exclusive clip.
And the Oscar-winning star, who plays Mrs Thatcher in the biopic, reveals she felt just like the former PM when she was shooting scenes in Parliament – because she was the only woman there.
She said: "I was surrounded by these wonderful British actors and I was the only woman in the room.
"And I sort of had the feeling Margaret Thatcher must have had when she walked into Parliament"
The footage was shot on set as they recreated the confrontational chamber of the House Of Commons in 1974, when Mrs T was Education Secretary,
And director Phyllida Lloyd, who was behind Meryl's movie Mamma Mia!, reveals that she filled the chamber exclusively with men to highlight the challenge facing her at the time.
The film, which follows the life and career of Britain's only female Prime Minister, stars Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher, Anthony Head as Geoffrey Howe and Richard E. Grant as Michael Heseltine.
And Meryl admits she drew courage from The Iron Lady herself to step into her shoes.
She said: "She was an interloper in this Oxbridge Etonian Conservative party into which she marched undaunted and I thought, 'Well, if she can do it.'
The film, released in the UK on January 6, looks sure to net the American actress her 17th Oscar nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
I was a child in the 80’s but I will never forget the last of the greatest world’s leaders.
Wow! That’s wonderful!
I love it.
I love it.
“Times were much better then.”
No!
Leaders were better then, but you can’t recapture their light and essence of Intellectual Honesty in a jar. Moreover, people, i.e, the voters, rose to the occasion although the Stalinist MSM did not.
Horseshit.
You are so right.
ML/NJ
ML/NJ
I have nothing to say that remotely approaches that so I'll just BTT.
To me the 80s were the late decade of any normality, innocence, or respect for authority — and the last hurrah for leaders of this caliber. Starting the 90s everything became in-your-face decadent.
Except that the ‘Evil Empire’ has now grown to include pretty much the whole world.
Oh please, in interview about the movie Streep said she had to be talked into it because her and her friends, “play for the other team”. I love her acting but can’t stand her views. I hope the movie is good.
The "other team" being the socialists and appeasers. Huh.. I had the (obviously incorrect) impression she was intelligent.
Oh well. Shut up and act, Meryl, you moron.
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