We’ll start with the bad news – there’s going to be a film about Margaret Thatcher. Want the mediocre news?
Meryl Streep might be playing Thatcher. And now for the amazing news – it’s being directed by Phyllida Lloyd. You know, the woman who directed Mamma Mia! This means that the film will almost certainly contain a sequence when, wracked with private guilt over the sinking of the Belgrano, Margaret Thatcher decides to cheer herself up by putting on a pair of dungarees and doing the splits while Nigel Lawson – played by Pierce Bronson – atonally grunts his way through an old disco tune.
This Margaret Thatcher film is going to be AWESOME. But only if it contains the exact sequence that we’ve just described.
Meryl Streep used to be famous for earnestly playing painfully serious roles in films like Out Of Africa and Sophie’s Choice. But lately, with films like The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia, she’s found a brand new audience by playing berserk old women with silly voices who lost touch with reality long ago.
Meryl Streep is now going to play Margaret Thatcher in a film. We’re just saying.
Anyway, following the success of The Queen and all those other Tony Blair film, it’s only natural that films based on other prime ministers were going to be rushed into production. And Margaret Thatcher is the perfect subject, because who else is there? John Major? Too dreary. Gordon Brown? Too depressing. David Cameron? Too overwhelmingly creepy.
So Thatcher it is. The Telegraph reports:
The biopic titled “Thatcher” will focus on the period immediately prior to the Falklands war, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Producers are said to be in talks with Streep, one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood, who is seen as one of the few women capable of convincingly playing Lady Thatcher.
In a funny sort of way, we agree with the producers. Meryl Streep really is one of the few women capable of convincingly playing Margaret Thatcher. She’s already got her loopy Julia Child voice ready to go, so all she needs to do is slap on a 10p Rod Hull wig and the Oscar will be hers.
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Tom says
Left-wingers make excellent court jesters and you’ve given us an excellent satire of the buffoons Mr. Heritage. Even your name seems to be part of the comic persona. Pure genius. Thank you.