Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
#0Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:20pm
What are your thoughts on her? I've seen many of her films, and would easily consider her to be the greatest living screen actress (that I know of, that is). She is also hysterical and witty at talk shows and award ceremonies.
So, what performances of hers do you like or dislike? What roles would you like to see her in? And finally, will she EVER come back to Broadway?
#2re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:22pm
I think she'd come back to Broadway.
But seriously, don't even get me started on her. She is the Jesus of actresses.
The only thing I didn't like her in is the absolutely abominable THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, but she was good in it. I don't think I've ever seen a bad performance of hers...
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#3re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:22pmDon't like her. She's too studied in my opinion. Lots of added baggage to her performances, and I'm constantly aware that she is ACTING.
#4re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:24pm
"Lots of added baggage to her performances"
What do you mean by that?
#5re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:25pmAs the most nominated actress of all time (Oscars,) I beg to differ.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:26pmShe's ok, but I don't think the greatest. I think she can imitate emotions, but I never really feel that her character is feeling them. IMO, she's on the same level as Matthew Broderick. They never fully become their character. It's almost like there is part of them grinning saying "This is not real."
#7re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:27pm
She's phenomenal.
I have adored her in everything I have seen her in.
She was the highlight of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
And oddly enough, I'm currently watching Angels in America as I post...
#8re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:34pmLove her - the first time I was actually speechless after a performance was watching her in "Sophie's Choice."
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#9re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:34pmA superb actress. IMO, her potrayal of Sophie in SOPHIE'S CHOICE is the finest performance by an actress in the history of American cinema.
#10re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:35pm
I love her because, being an extremely intelligent person, she understands her characters. Regardless of who she is playing (a ruthless senator, a drug-addicted columnist, a Holocaust survivor, an unstable mother, etc.), she always sides with them to lend an interesting dynamic to every film she appears in.
Also, as a studying actor, I appreciate that she would rather die than give a flat line reading. In "The River Wild", she has a monologue about glaciers and waterfalls. The line itself is completely unnecessary, but she makes it searching and desperate. Every time I watch her, I forget that I'm watching an actress, let alone one of the greatest.
Updated On: 4/8/05 at 04:35 PM
#11re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:41pm
goth, you said
"I think she can imitate emotions, but I never really feel that her character is feeling them."
have you ever SEEN Sophies Choice? The above statement would make one thing no.
She is one of the finest actors of all time. Even in "Death Becomes Her", an absolutely ridiculous comedy she was amazing.....
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#12re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:57pm
Definitely one of the all-time greats, she swore off the stage so that she wouldn't be separated from her kids for extended periods of time (the eight show a week schedule severely limits the after school time she'd like to have to spend with her kids). Aside from her wonderful turn as Arkadina in the Park a few summers ago with Kevin Kline, Phillip Seymour Hoffman et al, she hasn't been seen on the New York stage in nearly 25 years. She has said that when her youngest daughter is off to college (in about 5 years) she'll be anxious to return to the theatre.
In the mean time, she will be part of "Theatre for the New Ear" later this month along with Hope Davis, Steve Buscemi, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman at St. Anne's Warehouse. It's reading of new works by Charlie Kaufman and the Coen Brothers which will also feature a live band and runs April 28 - 30.
#13re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 5:08pm
"she swore off the stage so that she wouldn't be separated from her kids for extended periods of time"
While I would give anything to see her live, I have to give her props making that decision.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#14re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 8:09pmIn my opinion one of the greats. I love her performances even in minor films like "She Devil" and "Death Becomes Her" she has the ability to take mediocre material and make it so much better than what it really is. I would love to see her do a film with another one of my favorites: Susan Sarandon.
#15re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 8:34pmmarquise I forgot she-devil.....she was amazing in that.....hell, she's amazing in everything
#16re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 8:37pm
yeah. Just watch the Hours. Watch Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman. Then watch Meryl. Watch her school Kidman all over the place in that film.
#17re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 8:42pmI agree. While Kidman won the Oscar for "The Hours", Moore and Streep topped her by a mile (and this is coming from a HUGE Kidman fan). Watching them, you can practically see the wheels turning inside their heads. Both characters had backstories in the book, that were brilliantly carried over into the film.
#18re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:03pm86, I'm most definitely NOT a Kidman fan but I do agree with your assessment that two ladies who shared equal screen time with her in that film gave superior performances to Kidman's. That's the great thing about the Academy, you can always tell when they're anxious to anoint someone. Why that someone has YET to be Julianne Moore is beyond me...
#19re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:15pm
"Why that someone has YET to be Julianne Moore is beyond me..."
That bothers me every time I think about it. I always refer to her as the young(er) Meryl Streep
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Joshua488
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#23re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 4/10/05 at 12:42pmMeryl Streep is the best living actor on the planet. Period.
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