Lady Maureen Lipman questions Helen Mirren's casting for a Jewish role

Lady Maureen Lipman has questioned the selection of Helen Mirren as former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the upcoming film about her life. Lady Helen, a non-Jewish woman, will play politics in a film called Golda - Israel's first female prime minister.

Dam Maureen, Jewish, believes that a Jewish actress should have played the role. The sought comment from Dame Helen. "Hero Judaism is indissoluble," Lady Maureen told The Jewish Chronicle. earlier this week.

"I'm sure she [Lady Helen] will be unique, but Ben Kingsley will never get to play Nelson Mandela. You can't go there. In 1969, Golda Meir, known as the "great old woman.

Lioness, a separate TV miniseries directed by Barbara Streisand that will play Israeli actress Shira Haas as Meir, is also in the works. Lady Helen recently took on the role while filming the upcoming Guy Native biopic of the same name. After sharing the British actress' first photo as a late politician in November, she said it was a "huge challenge to play her at the most difficult time of her extraordinary life."

The Oscar winner has previously played Jewish characters, as a Mossad agent in the 2010 film The Debt and as Jewish refugee Maria Altman in 2015's Woman in Gold.

Meanwhile, Lady Maureen played the protagonist's mother in Roman Polanski's The Holocaust and Roman Polanski's War Memoirs from 2002. Her criticism of Dame Helen's role in the upcoming film about Golda was followed by a series of similar comments from actors questioning what they perceived to be a fake casting decision.

Tamsin Greig, a Christian of Jewish descent, told the Daily Telegraph last month that she "probably shouldn't" play a Jewish mother on the Channel 4 Friday dinner sitcom.

Elsewhere, American comedian and actress Sarah Silverman recently called actress Catherine Hahn because she had decided to play Joan Rivers in a planned biopic - and described the cast as "Jewface."