Kay Graham: une femme plus complexe que celle jouée par Meryl Streep

POLITICO nous présente cet article quelques heures avant la diffusion des Oscars. Comme Meryl Streep est en nomination pour son interprétation de Kay Graham dans "The Post", il est intéressant de lire les nuances apportées par Carol Felsenthal qui a déjà publié un livre sur la dirigeante du célèbre journal.

 "While Streep’s Graham is an approachable chief, the Graham that friends, colleagues and critics described to me was the bullied victim turned bully. At both Newsweek and the Post, she was known to turn on people, even fire them, for reasons not much better than that she didn’t like they way they looked, spoke or dressed. Paul Ignatius, the Post’s president at the time of the Pentagon Papers crisis—and a former secretary of the Navy—lasted two years before Graham pushed him aside. He told me that he was flabbergasted that she “bad-mouthed” him. She replaced Ignatius with John Prescott, then running the business side of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, who told me that he was reluctant to work for her because she was so indiscreet in disparaging Ignatius. “A trip through the composing room with Katharine,” Prescott told me, referring to the room where the typesetting was done, “was the most Lady Bountiful kind of experience.” He added that if he greeted a worker, she would glare."

  https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/04/the-post-graham-academy-awards-217218