Non-Jewish, British actress Helen Mirren, who is playing Golda Meir in a new film, waded into hypothetical Israeli political history in an interview on Tuesday with international news agency Agence France-Presse.
Mirren told AFP that the former Israeli prime minister would have opposed Israeli judicial reform.
AFP noted that controversy has surrounded the non-Jewish actress playing Meir, but it did not say that it was controversial for a non-Jewish actress to criticize the Jewish state in the way that she did.
Mirren, 77 hitchhiked around Israel in the 1960s with her Jewish boyfriend and experienced a kibbutz, which led the actress and Guy Nattiv, director of “Golda,” to think that she could understand Meir’s world, AFP reported.
In recent years, actors have faced backlashes for depictions that critics say appropriate others’ stories. In 2018, for example, Scarlett Johansson drew criticism for playing a transgender person, with CNN quoting someone who joked she would next play former President Barack Obama.
Bill Maher recently attacked Hollywood for that sort of criticism, TMZ reported. “People become actors so they can spend their lives not being who they are,” he said.
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Golda Meir disagreed with Menachem Begin andhe with her but they were both Prime Ministers, albeit at different times.