“We need a Barbie Golda Meir,” says Helen Mirren at Jerusalem Film Festival

Guy Nattiv’s ‘Golda’, about the former Israeli prime minister’, opens the festival this evening.A Barbie figure of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir would be a good idea, according to Helen Mirren, who stars in both Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) opening title Golda and narrates Warner Bros’ upcoming blockbuster Barbie.Speaking at a press conference for Golda ahead of the Jff opening ceremony this evening, Mirren addressed the contemporary relevance of Meir, who died in 1978.“If you’re talking about the history of feminism and women in power, Golda is an interesting example in that she had immense…

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