Here’s a first look at the unlikely casting but uncanny resemblance of Jane Fonda as former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Alan Rickman plays President Ronald Reagan in The Butler, currently filming in New Orleans. Fonda reportedly appears in just a few scenes. The pic stars Forest Whitaker as White House butler Eugene Allen whose career spanned 34 years there. Director Lee Daniels adapted the screenplay with Danny Strong from a Washington Post article.I first posted on the Thatcher bio in February 2011 and the first reviews of The Iron Lady were not good. After seeing it earlier this year I have to say Meryl Streep did an incredible job of physical portrayal of the former British PM. Although the script was a hatchet job.
Now we have this with an American traitor portraying the wife of the best President of the second half of the 20th Century. Sorry, bad choice. The bitch Fonda may actually act very well but her odor precedes her. Suffice to say (and yes, it's a minor role in the film, she's only one of many First Ladies shown) may be ok, her personal rot will ruin the acting.
Another film I will have little interest in seeing.
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