Seeing a lucrative opportunity in challenging King to a one - off, winner - take - all, televised exhibition match, Riggs»
public performance as a «male chauvinist pig» (putting the «show back into chauvinism») made it
difficult, if not impossible, for King to reject Riggs offer without compromising her
public persona as a women's rights advocate and a feminist icon.
And while Oldman is barely recognizable in Darkest Hour, his Churchill is well - worn — the same funny, bullheaded,
difficult orator familiar from half a dozen other Churchill biopics and from the prime minister's own self - curated
public and political
persona.