Meryl Streep

[kanding]

I love that movie! The way Streeps tosses out, "FLAAACID!", is hilarious!

[huntergrayson]

The Weinsteins must be pretty desperate to sell The Iron Lady - as they've managed to get the notoriously private, non-Tweeting Meryl to do a live chat with the public on the movie's FB page at 8:30 EST.

[mochakitty]

Meryl on the cover of January's Vogue. Interview excerpts:

On playing Margaret Thatcher: “With any character I play, where she is me is where I meet her. It’s very easy to set people at arm’s length and judge them. Yes, you can judge the policies and the actions and the shortcomings - but to live inside that body is another thing entirely. And it’s humbling on a certain level and infuriating, just like it is to live in your own body. Because you recognize your own failings, and I have no doubt that she recognized hers.”

On feeling strongly about the film: “Because the material embedded in it is a lot of what I’ve been thinking about. The themes in the film, which I don’t feel like underlining, have interested me for a while. And you never see these subjects covered in films normally, and so that was very thrilling.”

[grommit]

She looks great. I had no idea she was 62.

[Yossarian]

If Vogue has to have celebrities on the cover (rather than models) let it be Meryl more of the time! I can't wait to see her as Thatcher.

[Atreides]

Meryl is being really aggressive with her Oscar campaigning this year. I guess she's tired of sitting down while lesser actresses keep winning instead of her.

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Interesting that Meryl thinks Thatcher recognised her failings because Thatcher operated in a moral and political certitude that seems to have had no room for self-reflection. I know that she is lost to dementia now, but even when Pinochet was arrested in England (acting on a Spanish warrant), Thatcher was furious. She was Ayn Rand re-incarnated.

[gitsie007]

I'd love to see Streep's portrayal of Thatcher. I'm sure she will be great.

[kanding]

Dec 13, 2011 6:31:34 GMT -4 @lena said:

Interesting that Meryl thinks Thatcher recognised her failings because Thatcher operated in a moral and political certitude that seems to have had no room for self-reflection. I know that she is lost to dementia now, but even when Pinochet was arrested in England (acting on a Spanish warrant), Thatcher was furious. She was Ayn Rand re-incarnated.

Exactly. And I don't recall any evidence that she had any serious regrets about her time in office. It was that certitude that put people in awe of her even when they didn't like her. I think she got a hell of a lot of mileage out of it.

[huntergrayson]

A great slideshow that shows that Meryl Streep kisses everybody on the red carpet/at awards shows.

Slide #4 is awesome because it's LiLo trying to kiss Meryl and being denied. BURN!