Margaret
Thatcher has gone down in history as one of Britain's most iconic politicians - Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990, her strong will,
strict policies and political strength quickly earned her the title of the “Iron
Lady”.
I
think most would agree that creating a movie about such a figure – who is still
alive (Thatcher being 86 years old now) - is
asking for some trouble but the movie doesn't too deeply into her politics as we would expect...
Showed
looking back on her life, director Phyllida Lloyd said that the movie is like “a
Shakespearean story about power and loss, and the cost of a huge life, and
letting go," he told Reuters. "You
needed someone of the magnitude of Meryl Streep to take on Margaret Thatcher's
size and personality. You needed a superstar to play a superstar," Lloyd
said.
More
than a movie biography of Thatcher and her politics, Streep and the film-makers
sought to draw out the human element of Thatchers life, and look to the Iron
Lady herself.
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