Dame Helen Mirren has addressed questions over her casting as Israel’s first female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, and called them “utterly legitimate”. The choice of having Mirren, 76, play the role was criticised by Dame Maureen Lipman, 75, owing to the fact that despite her acting credentials as an Oscar-winning actress, Mirren is not Jewish. Speaking to the Jewish Chronicle about Meir, who died in 1978 after serving as Israel’s Prime Minister between 1969 and 1974, Lipman said that the character’s Jewishness is “integral”. “I’m sure she [Mirren] will be marvellous, but it would never be allowed for Ben Kingsley...
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