Is the UK Film Council using its last moments to take a dig at the Tories? It has been reported that one of the body's last grants was made to a hostile biopic of Mrs Thatcher entitled, with no great imagination, The Iron Lady. Meryl Streep will play the former prime minister and Phyllida Lloyd, the actor's director on Mamma Mia!,will be holding the megaphone.
Meryl set for Tory story
Is the UK Film Council using its last moments to take a dig at the Tories? It has been reported that one of the body’s last grants…
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Donald Clarke
Donald Clarke, a contributor to The Irish Times, is Chief Film Correspondent and a regular columnist
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