What do you do after turning yourself into Julia Child

What do you do after turning yourself into Julia Child, a bold, occasionally bossy woman who changed the way people think about food? You turn yourself into Margaret Thatcher, of course, an even bolder and bossier one, who changed the way people think about Britain.This is what Meryl Streep does in "The Iron Lady," which opens next Friday in the Bay Area. In yet another of her miraculous impersonations, which has already been nominated for a Golden Globe award, she seems even more Thatcher-like than Thatcher, so that after the movie if you go back and look at photographs of Thatcher in her prime, you Michael kors outlet can't help feeling that they're a little off. She no longer looks like herself.Sitting over tea with Phyllida Lloyd, the film's director, Streep says that she had been hoping to make a movie about Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and that Lloyd told her sarcastically, "Yeah, that will pack them in." But when offered the role of Thatcher, Streep didn't hesitate."You have to imagine yourself as a 62-year-old actress getting a phone call asking you to play the first female leader in the Western world elected on her own merits and not on the coattails of her husband," she says. "To say, 'No, I'm not interested' would just be ridiculous. There is no other opportunity like it."Streep researched her part carefully enough to learn even what Thatcher carried in her handbag: 3-by-5 cards with adages by Kipling, Shakespeare, Abraham Lincolnand Disraeli. She also realized, she said, that Thatcher, who is now 86 and in ill health, was herself an impersonation of sorts, michael kors
a woman who allowed herself to be made over by Tory strategists and even changed her way of speaking. In the movie Streep effortlessly imitates those burnished, sometimes strident, declamatory tones, the one novelist Angela Carter once said were reminiscent "not of real toffs but of Wodehouse aunts."But "The Iron Lady" is not, everyone involved keeps insisting, a conventional biopic, one that follows the career of some exalted personage step by step and ends with him or her in triumph. It's not even an especially political film. The movie begins in the present, with the Thatcher character old and frail, a little dotty and paranoid, and hallucinating the presence of her dead husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent).