Leonard Bernstein’s daughters on the biopic Maestro: ‘Take it from us, it is uncanny’

Financial Times
November 15, 2023

What do the following have in common — Judy Garland, Margaret Thatcher, Freddie Mercury and Stephen Hawking? Answer: they are just some of the real-life figures played by actors who have gone on to win Oscars. This is a well-trodden path to the red carpet of the Academy Awards.

One essential element is a subject with a high level of charisma, and nobody offered more of that than American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.