Such imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians.
Who will ever forget Rock Hudson playing Harold Macmillan, opposite Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Dorothy, or the glamour the young Clint Eastwood brought to playing the maverick, gun-toting loner Edward Heath in the Common Market blockbuster Busting Down the Doors (1973)?
More recently, Gillian Anderson won awards for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. But people forget that an equally glamorous actress played her in Young Margaret (1999).
Imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians. People forget Pamela Anderson (pictured) played Margaret Thatcher in Young Margaret (1999)