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The Iron Lady Trailer: Why Does Margaret Thatcher Sound Like Julia Child?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (21)

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Here, folks, is your brank-spankin’ new trailer for Meryl Streep’s The Iron Lady, in which she plays a Margaret Thatcher who is apparently in need of a make-over. The film, which also stars broadbent, focuses on the price that Thatcher played for power, which was apparently giving up her hat. Tsk tsk.

Check out the trailer.

Does anyone else find that her British accent sounds an awful lot like her Julia Child, only slightly less endearing? And if you are curious, like I am, about who plays the young Margaret Thatcher in the film, it’s Alexandra Roach. She looks like this:

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Why not just get Streep’s daughter, Mamie Gummer? And give us more excuses to say Mamie Gummer? It has a nice sound to it, doesn’t it? It’s what I say after I apply my lipstick to distribute evenly between the lips. Mamie Gummer.

It is a funny old world, isn’t it?









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Comments

Er...I'd need to see more I think. But her voice is not quite right there. When she first came on screen it looked a bit like a farce. Or like they'd modeled her on the Spitting Image puppet.

Posted by: Carrie at July 7, 2011 10:26 AM

And to share with you what we used to sing at school:

Margaret Thatcher, put her in the bin
Put the lid on, sellotape the rim
If she gets out, bonk her on the head
Glory, glory, Margaret Thatcher's dead!

I'm from the North, if that explains it any better.

Posted by: Carrie at July 7, 2011 10:28 AM

Sight unseen, trailer unwatched, I am calling Oscar in 2012 for Meryl Streep.

Mrs. Lysander Julien
Signed this 7th day of July, 2011
10:30 am EDT

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 7, 2011 10:30 AM

The price SHE paid for power?

Jesus Fucking Christ!

What about the price the rest of us paid when she was in power?

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 7, 2011 10:34 AM

I am...not convinced.

Posted by: PP Matter at July 7, 2011 10:37 AM

When Thatcher left power, my friend's mum danced around the house singing, "Ding dong, the witch is dead".

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 7, 2011 10:41 AM

Anyone who hasn't seen/heard it, go search YouTube for Elvis Costello's song about Margaret Thatcher.

Posted by: Jerce at July 7, 2011 11:06 AM

"And when they finally put you in your grave
I'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down"

Amen, Jerce.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 7, 2011 11:08 AM

She doesn't sound anything like Julia Child. Child was from Southern California and had a very high pitched voice. I just watched a clip of the real Thatcher giving a speech, and Streep is pretty close.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 7, 2011 11:54 AM

What PaddyDog said.

Posted by: Aislinn at July 7, 2011 12:12 PM

So you make a Biopic of Thatcher, which would only be of any interest to people in the UK and Ireland, and then you make her the hero of the story, despite her being hated by most people in the UK and Ireland... why did anybody producing this think they'd get any money from it?

Idiots

Posted by: cockroach at July 7, 2011 12:13 PM

I have to see more because right now it looks like a bad SNL skit.

Posted by: junierzzle at July 7, 2011 12:14 PM

Couldn't they just have gotten Imelda Staunton to reprise her Umbridge role in slightly less pink outfits? Because that's exactly who Maggie Streep reminded me of. Brr.

Posted by: Linda at July 7, 2011 1:10 PM

What a bunch of whinging pinkos!

Posted by: Peteb at July 7, 2011 5:34 PM

That's a weird trailer. As someone who makes weird trailers on occasion, I get what they were going for, but it didn't quite work.

Posted by: Lucas at July 7, 2011 6:54 PM

She was certainly despised by the intellectual giants in our artiste class, but then they also despise Tony Blair, so maybe it's just in their nature. For those reasons, I expect this to be a hatchet job.

Posted by: John at July 7, 2011 7:34 PM

Julia Child? You're too kind. I'm thinking Mrs. Doubtfire. I have to see the whole film though, Meryl can do no wrong in my book.

Posted by: Adrien at July 7, 2011 7:37 PM

Damn, that music is so familiar. I'm thinking Nine Inch Nails, but it's not from 'The Social Network' or 'With Teeth.' Any ideas?

Posted by: Brian Tristam Williams at July 7, 2011 7:44 PM

It’s what I say after I apply my lipstick to distribute evenly between the lips.

/low-hanging fruit... must ignore...

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 7, 2011 9:44 PM

Damn, that music is so familiar. I'm thinking Nine Inch Nails, but it's not from 'The Social Network' or 'With Teeth.' Any ideas?

Isn't it from the soundtrack to 'Moon'?

Posted by: Yastobaal at July 8, 2011 4:38 AM

So, the trailer says it's coming out in JANUARY 2012...does that mean wide release, with the usual one-week limited opening at the end of 2011? Otherwise, it's completely out of the 2012 Oscar race, meaning it sucks like nothing has sucked before.

Posted by: audrey at July 9, 2011 3:21 AM