This photo of Meryl Streep portraying former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who is still alive, for the record), hit the interwebs yesterday starting the buzz about THE IRON LADY – the upcoming biopic about Thatcher’s life. Apparently they only started shooting a week ago, but it’s scheduled for release later this year. Ambitious schedule!
8 days into shooting, and tongues are already wagging. Those readers who remember the Reagan Administration, will likely also remember Margaret Thatcher kicking down age-old gender barriers that made her the first female Prime Minister of the UK, and garnered her the nickname The Iron Lady, from a confused Soviet leader. Mostly, though, she will be remembered as Reagan’s conservative counterpart across the pond, who was responsible for some wildly unfavorable, and frequently Labour-hostile policy. Read more here…