‘Golda’ Filmmaker Guy Nattiv On Why The Time Is Right For A Biopic About Israel’s Only Female Prime Minister – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comWhy did it take decades for a biopic to be made about Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir? Filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who boarded the “open assignment” project well before his live-action short Oscar win for Skin in 2019, tells us why, in addition to Golda‘s recent shepherding as a feature.
Helen Mirren, whose casting as Meir stirred the media early on since the actress isn’t Jewish, became attached before Nattiv.
All along the Oscar winning actress had the blessing of Meir’s grandchildren, in particular Shaul Rahabi. Bleecker Street, the domestic distributor, and Embankment, kept the project afloat financially toward a finish line when Covid stalled development.
Nattiv doesn’t foresee Golda stirring up any more controversy, particularly in its homeland of Israel. All the warts are out there per the director about the female prime minister and the casualties of 1973’s Yom Kippur War, which she presided over; that face-off with Egypt and Syria which went down in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
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