![]() She did go on to say Mirren "will be marvellous in the role". For example, who would now cast the illustrious Alec Guinness in his famous role as the eccentric philosophising Indian character Dr Godbole in double Oscar-winning A Passage To India (or indeed Ben Kingsley as Gandhi)?īut even last week we hear that non-Jewish Dame Helen Mirren will play Israeli leader Golda Meir in a Hollywood film.įellow dame, Corrie's Mauren Lipman who is Jewish, attacked the casting, saying the politician should be played by a Jewish actress. Granted, many do not bear too much close examination, looking back. Whether you want to raise a hue and cry about it is one thing, but stereotypical or stock characters have been with us since silent films, and Victorian melodrama.
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