Meryl Streep dons the pearls, the Sunday Church skirts and matching blazers, the handbag, and the highly voluminous perm to tackle the role of strict conservative and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Documenting the highs and lows of both her political and domestic life to date in the biographical film The Iron Lady.
Opening in Thacther's home post 2003, the film shows Streep as a lonely only old woman who can't bring herself to clear out her dead husband's closet. Rendering Thatcher subject to constant hallucinations of her former lover and father of her child Dennis (Jim Broadbent) as her grip on reality slowly slips away from the once powerful and ruthless intelligent woman. Leaving her frail, confused and a little bit senile in the process. Until Thatcher finds the courage and strength to live on without Dennis by her side for the sake of her health deteriorates in a dimentia fueled decline.
What is shown in between is a series of narrated flashbacks providing a fresh insight into The Iron Lady illustrating Thatcher as the Cinderella of Politics in an inspiring tale of how a Grocer's daughter fights her way to the top of a male dominated world, the power that inevitably comes with and the sacrifices that are made a long the way. There was a lot more that could have been covered of Thatcher's turbulent eleven year rule of Britain and a lot more detail could have been given to the politically invested elements, but Meryl Streep's performance outshines any drawbacks in an instant as the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher both young and old.
The Iron Lady also boasts Little Britain and Merlin star Anthony Stewart Head as Thatcher's devote cabinet member and deputy Geoffrey Howe and Olivia Colman of Peep Show fame in the role of beloved daughter Carol Thatcher.
The Iron Lady was directed by Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd and was funded by the National Lottery and the UK Film Council. Merly Streep has been nominated in a total of nine award ceremonies for her role as Margaret Thatcher having walked away with two of the awards so far. The Iron Lady is out on the big screen now.
Take a look at Meryl Streep in action as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the trailer below.
Opening in Thacther's home post 2003, the film shows Streep as a lonely only old woman who can't bring herself to clear out her dead husband's closet. Rendering Thatcher subject to constant hallucinations of her former lover and father of her child Dennis (Jim Broadbent) as her grip on reality slowly slips away from the once powerful and ruthless intelligent woman. Leaving her frail, confused and a little bit senile in the process. Until Thatcher finds the courage and strength to live on without Dennis by her side for the sake of her health deteriorates in a dimentia fueled decline.
What is shown in between is a series of narrated flashbacks providing a fresh insight into The Iron Lady illustrating Thatcher as the Cinderella of Politics in an inspiring tale of how a Grocer's daughter fights her way to the top of a male dominated world, the power that inevitably comes with and the sacrifices that are made a long the way. There was a lot more that could have been covered of Thatcher's turbulent eleven year rule of Britain and a lot more detail could have been given to the politically invested elements, but Meryl Streep's performance outshines any drawbacks in an instant as the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher both young and old.
The Iron Lady also boasts Little Britain and Merlin star Anthony Stewart Head as Thatcher's devote cabinet member and deputy Geoffrey Howe and Olivia Colman of Peep Show fame in the role of beloved daughter Carol Thatcher.
The Iron Lady was directed by Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd and was funded by the National Lottery and the UK Film Council. Merly Streep has been nominated in a total of nine award ceremonies for her role as Margaret Thatcher having walked away with two of the awards so far. The Iron Lady is out on the big screen now.
Take a look at Meryl Streep in action as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the trailer below.
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