Currently filming in London The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd’s biopic of Maggie Thatcher, has afforded us a look at one of our favourite actors taking on the man behind the woman who drove the UK through the turbulent political landscape of the 80s.
Jim Broadbent, who recently returned to work with Mike Leigh for Another Year, is taking on the role of Dennis Thatcher, a man who suffered a severe ribbing throughout his wife’s reign at Number 10 at the hands of the press. Something which these images, courtesy of a bizarrly skewed and clearly offended Daily Mail article, seem to suggest the film will play up.
Broadbent stars opposite Meryl Streep who is taking on the mantle of the prime minister and it is this on-screen union has me sold on the project, Richard E Grant, Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head and John Sessions fill up the remainder of the cast list. Jolly good show eh?
Pics ahoy,
