Meryl Streep and Gillian Anderson Teach Terry How To Talk Like Thatcher (Fresh Air+) Fresh Air
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As we come off a big general election in the United Kingdom, we couldn't help but notice our lack of archival interviews with British Prime Ministers, sitting or non. What we do have are several conversations about one former Prime Minister in particular: Margaret Thatcher. American actors Gillian Anderson and Meryl Streep both won awards for their respective portrayals of the UK's first female PM, and they each tried to help Terry sound like the leader herself. Hear Gillian Anderson in 2020: https://n.pr/3W9mIJx | Hear Meryl Streep in 2012: https://n.pr/3XLGmMD. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.
As we come off a big general election in the United Kingdom, we couldn't help but notice our lack of archival interviews with British Prime Ministers, sitting or non. What we do have are several conversations about one former Prime Minister in particular: Margaret Thatcher. American actors Gillian Anderson and Meryl Streep both won awards for their respective portrayals of the UK's first female PM, and they each tried to help Terry sound like the leader herself. Hear Gillian Anderson in 2020: https://n.pr/3W9mIJx | Hear Meryl Streep in 2012: https://n.pr/3XLGmMD. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.