As the events of Netflix’s The Crown creep ever further towards the current day, casting news gets more and more fun. Not only are we getting the beautifully bonkers pairing of Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter as the older Elizabeth and Margaret in season 3, but we also get to speculate who else might join the cast to play faces we’re more familiar with than “the main butler guy” and “I think it’s Lord Chamberlain-Featherstonehaugh or something?”
But as if our confused attraction to horrid old Prince Phillip in the form of floppy-haired, bearded Matt Smith wasn’t bad enough, now we have to contend with being kinda horny for Margaret Thatcher.
How are they managing this sorcery, you ask?
By casting actual goddess and British-raised icon Gillian Anderson as the Iron Lady herself.
Now the internet is freaking out. Because on the one hand: Gillian Anderson.
On the other: Margaret Thatcher.
I’m sure Gillian Anderson will ace playing Margaret Thatcher but at the same time, Thatcher doesn’t deserve to be played by Gillian Anderson
— Lewis Knight (@ThatsOurLewis) January 20, 2019
Or, put another way: Gillian Anderson…
As Margaret Thatcher.
Gillian Anderson playing Margaret Thatcher makes a kind of sense because after being in HANNIBAL and THE FALL, finally it's *her* turn to play a hot serial killer
— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) January 20, 2019
Thatcher likely won’t appear until the show’s fourth season and we’re yet to even get a release date for the third, so you have a fair while to prepare yourself for some very weird boners.
In the meantime, you can enjoy Anderson somewhat less problematically as a sex therapist/MILF in Netflix’s Sex Education.
chris carter: let’s do another season of the x-files!
gillian anderson: pic.twitter.com/8WaboB1lyc
— arianna? (@arywelcomes) January 16, 2019
Gillian Anderson: ruining lives in the best way possible since 1996.
