Posted on 01/09/2022 2:14:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
She has played the Queen and a gangster’s moll but her latest casting has sparked controversy
Nobody is quite what they seem. And actors? Well, for actors that’s the job. Dame Helen Mirren, as well as being herself for 76 years, has by now notably been Lady Macbeth, a London gangster’s moll, a thief’s wife, an alcoholic cop, an action hero, Prospero and also a British monarch at least four times. Now she takes on Golda Meir, the late prime minister of Israel, in a new biopic, and the casting has caused controversy.
The choice of a non-Jewish actor to star as a woman with such a prominent place in the history of Israel has prompted irritation on both sides of the argument. Another illustrious dame, Maureen Lipman, was first to raise the issue – or “blast” Mirren, according to some reports last week – and then Dame Esther Rantzen defended the director’s choice. It is the latest instance of a ‘Jewface’ row, a backlash to the assignment of a major Jewish role to someone not from that minority background.
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Well, it’s a small blessing their didn’t choose an actress “of color” to portray Golda.
You can say that again!
If they wanted visual realism, they should have cast Danny Aiello as Golda while he was still alive.
She was in Caligula, believe it or not.
I think I smell jealousy...
By these standards, no Jew should play a WASP (frequent roles in American movies, where we have a lot of great Jewish actors) and everybody needs a DNA check before casting.
Helen Mirren would be great. She has done a truly amazing job in every movie I’ve seen about the Margaret Thatcher/Golda Mier type of woman.
The question is will this be another lying Hollywood hit piece? Israel never gets an even break from Hollywood or the media.
ROTFLMAO!
She still is no Helen Thomas
Christopher Reeve was not Kryptonian.
Let’s extend this idiocy to journalism. Is the author of this article Jewish? Should a non-Jew be writing about Jewish issues? Maybe she is Jewish. I don’t know, but that way of thinking is idiotic.
A person can’t be too “woke”, can they? /s
Acting is pretending to be someone you’re not. Do they not get that?
“ Maureen Lipman illustrious?! Never heard of her! “
I only know her as Aunt Eller in a 1999 London revival of Oklahoma! that starred a young Hugh Jackman (the gigantic Ackman). She was very good and the whole production was excellent. Jackman was outstanding, too. It’s on video.
She was also in a Doctor Who episode but I never saw it.
A Brit actress who gets the title ‘Dame’ is illustrious, at least in the UK.
Fascinating
Danny Divito could also play Golda Mier
Women were so much more sexier then IMHO.
She also played an Anglican vicar.
She’s a hypocrite. Just like Sarah Silverman, and her “Jewface” argument.
Yawn.
Debra Winger not allowed to play the Polish Catholic girl in An Officer and a Gentleman, the Texas girl (presumably Protestant) in Urban Cowboy, or daughter of WASPS Emma Greenway in Terms of Endearment.
It shows, Maureen, don’t you know.
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