Dame Helen Mirren has admitted criticism of her decision to play late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is 'legitimate' after Bradley Cooper faced similar criticism for playing Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein. The British actress, 78, - who features in a glamorous new cover-shoot for the fall-winter edition of magazine - plays the late Golda Meir, to date Israel's only female Prime Minister. And Mirren admits playing the leader despite having no off-screen connections to the religion has been met with 'utterly legitimate' criticism from those who believe the role should have been passed to a Jewish actress.
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