Posted on 01/21/2019 8:14:49 AM PST by Ennis85
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to make a cameo appearance in the new Lego movie.
Justice Ginsburg, known affectionately to her supporters as the "Notorious RBG", will appear as a Lego minifigure - complete with gavel and robes.
She was not required to do voice work for the film, but has given filmmakers permission to use her likeness.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - a sequel to the 2014 film The Lego Movie - is due to be released on 8 February.
Producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord say they were "trying to think of people who should be immortalised in Lego and who seem fun at weddings" when they decided to include the judge.
Her character has already made its first appearance, in a trailer posted to The Lego Movie's Instagram page yesterday.
The film will be about two siblings playing with their own Lego universe and, according to director Mike Mitchell, Justice Ginsburg will be part of the world invented by the creative younger sister.
"These movies are so full of surprises," Mr Mitchell told USA Today. "And we were thinking, 'who's the last person you would think to see in a Lego film as a minifig?' - Ruth Bader Ginsburg!"
The judge, who had cancer surgery last month, hasn't recorded any audio for the film - but the filmmakers say she's given it her blessing.
"She said, 'Of course, I'd love to be a Lego figure. That would be cool,'" Mr Mitchell says.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Justice Ginsburg is a bona fide icon among liberals in the US, known for her serious demeanour, her long pauses, and her pioneering work on women's rights.
And at 85 years old, Justice Ginsburg is also the oldest serving judge on the Supreme Court
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Nauseating.
I saw an early advertisement. The cartoon RBG superhero is a bright-eyed, smiling, freckled pre-kindergarten superhero.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Is there a sitting shiva scene in the movie?
“...known for her serious demeanour, her long pauses...”
While she is trying to figure out who and where she is.
Can’t show the evil old crone for what she is.
I was kinda thinking she could painted on a horizontal box. You know, stacked like a Lego brick in a wall. Or a coffin.
Goebbels would be envious of the propaganda machine Hollywood has become.
I wish Ginsberg would retire AND Clarence Thomas (although for entirely different reasons.
Clarence should be asked to nominated his successor (in private talks with Trump) and enjoy a nice well-earned retirement, TEACHING more blacks not to rely on the government.
Ginsberg should just go... and take her anti-constitutional sentiments with her.
Then find out whatever blackmail they had against Roberts, and use it to force him to retire (for his health)
Then we would have 5 constitutionalism for decades.
Have her step on a lego piece fall down hit her head and bleed out with her dentures falling out of her face
This is why she refused to retire.
If she retired, the adoration ends. She joins O’Connor and Souter as snipers on the sideline. She’d give Trump a victory and forever be lambasted.
This is her vanity.
Brainwashing children with leftist evil. What penalty for depravity against children?
As who, the Grim Reaper? What’s the subtitle? Tales From The Crypt?
An all new low for what should be the dignity of the highest court in our land.
On a related note: Considering her recent medical history, I doubt that she is ready for the “ribbing” that she will take.
Wrong movie.
It should be Weekend At Bernie’s
RBG is a bona fide icon?
Yeah, right.
She deserves a lifetime achievement ACLU award.
Too Late! Fox n Friends declared her assuming room temperature this morning.
I want her character to say the wrong kind of Lego people are being manufactured...
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