Hannah Brown
Jerusalem Post, Sept. 2, 2023
“Golda was a turtle, not a bunny, she was slow in her movements and she never raised her voice, she never screamed or shouted. So that was one of our decisions, Helen and I, that she keeps it all very quiet. And I wanted all the nuances to be very small, tiny. When we would have these discussions, I would take her aside and say, ‘Just a little smaller, keep it low,’ and she’d say, ‘Fine, fine.’”
Guy Nattiv knows that Golda Meir is a divisive figure in Israel. The director of Golda, the movie that stars Helen Mirren as Golda Meir as she copes with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, said that as he made the movie, which was released last week, his thinking about Israel’s first and only female prime minister shifted, and he hopes it may change others’ view of the late leader, who has taken much of the blame for Israel’s lack of preparedness for that war.
“When I came aboard [the movie], I was very anti-Golda, because I grew up on the notion that she is to blame, that she was the worst prime minister in the history of Israel,” said Nattiv, in an interview from Los Angeles, where he is currently based with his actress/producer wife, Jaime Ray Newman, and their two daughters.
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