Last month Meryl Steep won applause for decrying Walt Disney a "gender bigot". Her crusading continues with the news that she's set to play Emmeline Pankhurst in a new film, reports Screen.
Suffragette, which stars Carey Mulligan as Maude, a "foot soldier of the early feminist movement", is to be directed by Brick Lane's Sarah Gavron from a script by Abi Morgan. Morgan wrote The Iron Lady, the Margaret Thatcher biopic for which Steep won an Oscar two years ago. Streep will apparently feature in a keynote rally scene in which Pankhurst makes a speech.
Starring alongside Mulligan and Streep, are Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai , Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West. The film apparently charts the early activists for womens' lib and their run-ins with the government.
Streep received her 18th Academy Award nomination in January for her performance as a boozy matriarch in August: Osage County.
