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[selenak]

The downside of finishing your X-Men ficathon story early: realising you won't be able to post it for more than a month. Ah well.

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Idle thought: these last weeks ASH (that's Anthony Head to you non-Buffy and non-Merlin watchers) did some promotion of the

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[kalypso_v]

Thatcher's been played by a lot of British actresses (and that list also includes one man, from Spitting Image). At least one, Lindsay Duncan, cheerfully admitted to loathing her, but it's a great part, so I don't think personal views put them off.

[shezan]

The very point I was going to make. Andrea Riseborough said rather nice things about her, too. And of course I plan to watch this movie.

[kalypso_v]

The Riseborough version was a hoot, and even lefties like me were rooting for her by the end. It probably helped that it finished just as she entered Parliament!

[selenak]

That was no question for me at all.:) I'm going to see it too, because hey, Meryl Streep in this role, with a great supporting cast?

[kathyh]

I was going to say that too. It's a terrific role for a woman so I think the casting of Meryl Streep has far more to do with Hollywood perceptions than British actresses not wanting to play her.

I haven't seen the Andrea Riseborough version but Lindsay Duncan was excellent.

[selenak]

I can so see Lindsay Duncan in the role...

[selenak]

*reads list*

Damn, I want to see the Anna Massey version! Not only because of A.M but because of the subject (the Pinochet affair).

[kalypso_v]

Sadly, I missed that one. I saw Patricia Hodge in The Falklands Play, a sympathetic portrait.