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and golda meir, okay, where is this going? it says, yes. and nixon says we both have jewish foreign ministers, which is not particularly unusual if you're from israel. and golda meir says yes and mine speaks english anyway. anyway, so. so it's a puzzle to. me what drove nixon to do what he did and i'm not going to relate the whole story of watergate, but i hope made it at least plausible that watergate is at the heart of what i consider to be the most important development in american history. well, i go so far as to say in the last 80 years, and it is what i'm calling this great unraveling or big shift in american attitudes toward government. watergate is a big part, the enormous part of it as well. but i should add that watergate sort of came out of as, say, the vietnam issue, because the pentagon papers and all this. but there was this moment, there was this long when 50 years from the early 1930s to let's call it the mid 1970s, early 1970s, anyway, when americans were willing to accept a bigger government role because government was tho

we have golda meir as well.controversies. this talk about strike, talk about casten controversies.- casten controversies. as we said before, _ casten controversies. as we said before, the _ casten controversies. as we j said before, the controversy about casting rachel zegler in the role of snowwhite, that is pure racism. let's talk about the other individuals are part of the original story. the seven awards. they have not been capped as second wars. if you're going to mess around with a story format, why bother with the reboot at all? exactly. you could also say stories moved with the times and there are so many decisions that go into these movies, creative decisions, financial decisions. it is important also that cultural sensitivity should be considered as well. that is pretty much what is at the heart of the debate over all of these movies were right now. , ., , y all of these movies were right now. , ., , , all of these movies were right now. , ., _ now. obviously the debate has been raging — now. obviously

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50 years since meir read her country through the yom kippur war, when the egyptians and syrians invaded israel. these 2500 israeli troops died in the 19 days of fighting. the new film goldag director -- and goal that mayors grandson gideon. it's great to have you here. i have to start with helen mirren. we're talking about how wonderful she has personally and what an extraordinary actor she is. how did she come to this role and this piece of golda meir's story, because it is about this moment of time. >> you know, when i join the project, helen was already cast as i think gideon was the first one who thought about helen as his grandmother. he said i see helen, i see my grandmother, and helen did her research. first of, all she was 29 when she toured the country and toward israel. she lived in a coutts and israel. pick tomatoes when she was 29th, 1967, and so she was connected to israel from her youth. and i think that when she came to the role, she was full of inspiration to gold. she read everything about gold. she was really, she read the script and immediately she said yes. >> and gideon, what was it like to see helen mirren finally and full makeup giving that perform

and he's done some things he likes to point out he's known every prime minister since golda meir. if he continue with his current insistence that this legislation hurts the shared value that are one of the most important pillars of the relationship -- by the way, i think this legislation also hurts u.s. interests. it's not just about value. the supreme court in israel over the years has played a very important role, fortunately, as kind of a babysitter, all kinds of populists, and extremist politicians. netanyahu was prime minister before he became a criminal defendant and then changed his entire approach to the judicial system and became much more -- before that happened if you go back seven, eight, nine, 10 years ago, netanyahu was always very supportive of the judicial system and opposed all kinds of initiatives from the right to weaken it. why is that? it was very comfortable for him as prime minister to know that he could allow his right-wing religious coalition partners to put forward all kinds of crazy legislation and policies, enthat the supreme court will eventually inter

>> that is helen mirren in her role as golda meir.ustrates how the conflict took a toll on meir and her country. joining us now, guy, the director, and golda's grandson, great to have you. we talked about how wonderful helen is, what an extraordinary actor. how does she come to this piece of golda's story in it is about this moment in time. >> well, you know, when i joined the project, helen was already cast as, i think gideon was the first one who thought about helen as his grandmother. he said, i see helen, i see my grandmother. helen did her research. first of all, she was 29 when he toured the country, toured israel. she volunteered in israel. big tomatoes. when she was 29, it was 1967. she was, you know, connected to israel from her youth. i think that when she came to the role, she was full of admiration to golda. she read everything about golda. she was really -- she read the script and immediately said yes. >> gideon, what was it like to see helen mirren finally in full makeup, giving that performance, looking almost exactly l

for example, when helen mirren played golda meir, maureen lipman complained and said, why weren't jewishs considered? this is actually about the actually more about the prosthetic nose that's drawing all the fire and whether it ties into a dangerous caricature, which is historically been quite prevalent in popular culture art, the kind of sort of a jewish person with a very large hooked nose. again when people are coming down on both sides, i think if you look at the pictures personally, he he has bernstein's nose. that's what they've given him. >> yes . i they've given him. >> yes. i mean, it seems to me there's actually a danger here that the racism comes from the other side. i mean, you could argue bradley cooper set argue that bradley cooper set out look like leonard out to look like leonard bernstein, what most bernstein, which is what most actors when they're playing a actors do when they're playing a well—known character from history . those people who say, history. those people who say, ah, he's increased the size of his nose, therefore it's anti semitic. seems to me semitic. it