Dame Helen Mirren IS Golda Meir (2023)

Crikey!

And if one of you tasteless Catamites does a "Mein Fuhrer" on this thread about a Jewess who survived the Holocaust and co-founded the Jewish State, Barbra will send Mossad goons to your condo.

[quote]you tasteless Catamites

MYRIAM!

Great post R2.

The make-up is impressive, but the voice is way off.

Could Siggy have done it? She would've needed more makeup than Mirren, and it wouldn't feel like Oscar Bait, but I wonder what she would've done with the part.

Siggy? The 70s supermodel?

Casting controversy

In January 2022, British actress Maureen Lipman criticized the casting of Helen Mirren in the film, stating: "I'm sure she will be marvellous, but it would never be allowed for Ben Kingsley to play Nelson Mandela. You just couldn't even go there." The following month, Mirren responded by saying Lipman was "utterly legitimate" to criticize her casting, and she had discussed the decision to cast her in the film with director Nattiv.

I heard Viola Davis auditioned for this.

Remember: Acting... is attrACTing.

R9 Bitch has no class.

That part was MINE until Racist Dick Hollywood ruined it for me. Again.

Meh.

The trailer is out. The nose prosthetic was a questionable choice. This looks like a disaster.

reboots reboots reboots

Tovah is spitting blood.

I once spent a summer in a kibbutz with her grandson Oscar.

Tovah has a cameo portraying a wash room attendant whining about a clogged toilet.

Felt a toe shoe

Helen Mirren held it together for a long time as a beautiful older woman, but it looks like she finally hit the brick wall.

Dame Helen seemed to say yes to the paycheck rather than a quality script for a long time now. Didn't she turn down the role of Social Worker in Precious, laughing at the salary offered?

Reductive

I think she turned previous down to clash, r20. She had worked with Lee Daniels previously and does act in indie movies so I doubt it was about the pay.

It ended up being a good decision, because Mariah Carey turned out to be fantastic.

Oh dear. The prosthetic nose turned out to be a mistake. She’ll be accused of Jew Face now. Plus Helen has quite the impressive Russian beak herself, so the eyebrows and wrinkles alone would have made a huge difference.

R16 Golda Meir? Golda my ass!

R22 apparently she annoyed Lee Daniels by saying she had a real job that actually paid!

Previously I was down to clash.

Whenever I see actors made up like this, I always wonder whether the original could like like the actor.

If Mirren could be made up to look like Meir, the could Meir look like Mirren with a bit of makeup and better clothes.

When Charlize Theron played Aileen Wuornos, I always wondered whether Wuornos could have lost a few pounds and put on some glamorous makeup and looked as good as Theron.

OP Golda Meier and her family emigrated from Ukraine in 1905 to settle in Milwaukee Wisconsin. She and her husband moved to Palestine (under British mandate) in 1921. She avoided the holocaust completely.

‘Olocaust.

No Barbie Yaaassss Kweens will see this, since they all recently decided to side with Palestine from social media indoctrination after the whole BLM/POC movement during COVID. They’re antisemites.

Golda spent the period of the Holocaust sleeping her way through the upper echelons of the Zionist movement in Mandatory Palestine.

R30 so will supporters of Neturei Karta - Orthodox Jews against Zionism.

R31 while she was married she was also a socialist. It is possible she and her husband believed in free love.

I wonder if she will be getting the old baps out to add a bit of sex appeal to proceedings

Has anybody actually watched this? What did you think?

OP A Holocaust will never happen to Jews again. The only way to prevent that is to take everyone with us if it’s attempted.

I LOVE her. She always makes a film worth watching.

The trailer looks good to me. I am rather ignorant about the history of israel

What does DL think about the Bergman film? I saw it as a child and only really remember my parents praising her performance. There was a moment where Bergman's Golda, smoking a cigarette, thinks in a VO "I failed" and I remember being surprised that an adult would think such a thing. (I was eight years old.)

Partner and friends saw it. Not very good.

Let me tell you a story.

Picture it: Sicily, 1920. Two young girls pack their bags and leave their tiny villages to seek fame and fortune and a meal cooked without oregano. Their journey takes them to a seaside town where a ship prepares to depart for the New World. (Anybody can say Baltimore. There's an art to telling this story.)

Anyway, the price of steerage turns out to be 900,000 lira -- or approximately a buck and a quarter -- which is exactly the amount of each girl's life savings. One girl chooses to spend her money and take a chance on adventure. The other plays it cautiously and books only a ferry to Sardinia, saving the rest of her money for a rainy day.

I'm the girl who played it safe. Maybe if I'd made the other choice, I'd have been prime minister of Israel like my good friend Golda Meir. I almost married her husband, the man who perfected the hot dog -- Oscar Meyer!

This is the world leader biopic I really wanted

It is a struggle getting through it, even on a rainy weekend. I don't know why it is so boring and unengaging. I'm a fan of Helen Mirren, a bit of an Israeli history buff and was looking forward to seeing it. I doubt I will watch it to the end.

I wish Valerie Harper had had the chance.