I actually don’t want to see any more of this film as Meryl Streep seems to have completed her Doomlord like transformation into the woMan of Steel herself and now Streep is Thatcher is Streep, Meryl becomes Maggie and spines across the country chill in hideous remembrance.
The Iron Lady is the handy work of Phyllida Lloyd who directed Streep in Mamma Mia back in 2008 and things turned out pretty well for that film didn’t they Mind you – an Abba spouting chorus on a Greek island is a far cry from the depressive overhang of Thatcher’s Britain though the supporting cast is rather impressive and includes Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher, Richard E Grant, Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head and John Sessions. Maybe if they all join in with The Winner Takes it All at the closing credits things will work out.
Here’s Thatch giving it large.
This pic is from The Playlist’s coverage of EW’s new issue.
