Clutch The Pearls! "The Iron Lady" Teases

What timing!

Oscar nominations are exactly 200 days away. Immediately after hearing that Glenn Close's Albert Nobbs now has a distributor, her ostensible "overdue" Best Actress competition -- that'd be Meryl Streep -- starts teasing us with this one minute teaser clip, the first from The Iron Lady.

We'll save the "Yes, No, Maybe So" for a full trailer. But you are immediately forgiven if every line reads as an Oscar tease as well.

You've got it in you to go the whole distance!"

Consider eyebrows raised, but why can't I shake the vocal / aural image of Streep as Julia Child on first glimpse of Streep as Margaret Thatcher? Is it just the Oscar proximity? (Can you?)

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Comments

[Mark]

She's playing Julia Child again? Looks truly awful. But then again it's only a teaser..

[adri]

Although I think Meryl Streep has been extraordinarily successful in managing a decades long career (like Tom Hanks), Streep's Thatcher strikes me like Hank's Da Vinci Code, where there's an edge of maybe this isn't quite the actor for this role.