Margaret Thatcher movie to reveal her intimate portrait · 2007-03-21 13:12
A movie about former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the run-up to the 1982 Falklands War is being planned.
Pathe and BBC Films are developing a script for a drama-documentary about the tense political period before the conflict between the UK and Argentina, the BBC reported.
“The proposed film will be a revealing and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher as she battles to save her career in the 17 days immediately preceding the war,” Pathe said in a statement.
According to Variety magazine, Thatcher will be seen “wrestling with her own private fears, facing down the men who doubted her and forging her image as the Iron Lady”.
Any actress playing the lead role would need to master the way the former prime minister sounded.
“What they’ve got to distinguish is the voice that Mrs Thatcher has for Parliament and the voice that she would have had in private,” Steve Nallon, who impersonated her on TV satire Spitting Image, said.
“That would be the difficulty – finding that private Mrs Thatcher that, frankly, the cameras never saw.”
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