I´m an actress myself and, when I started the drama school, my teacher told us: you have to play with the seriousness with which children play. I never forget it till now. Thanks Meryl !!! You are georgeus!!!!
so true, what I also remember from childhood is taking the story/situation very seriously, and the few times I've been in character I also really thought I was in that situation
@@talkfilm2686 that got shelved i feel. i agree, we need her back in the theaters, though, no more streaming projects for now... at least just one for cinema pls
Even without the emotionally-draining roles and all the accurate accents, she is still one of the greatest actors I've ever seen. When you see her (in most of her works), it's as if you're having this invisible camera spying through her life, and you won't think that you're watching an actress uttering scripted dialogue.
And THAT ladies and gentlemen is why she's so freaking BRILLIANT. Most of us have so taken on the mantle of our societal disdain and skepticism that we simply cannot imagine suspending DISbelief. Ms. Streep, on the other hand, even in her role as an actor (or maybe especially in her role as an actor)...cannot imagine NOT believing that she is, at any given moment, precisely who she thinks she is...Hello Oscar (smile).
I think she's one of my BIGGEST inspirations. Although it never came together for me like that, her philosophy is one I embrace. She SO RIGHT about the "innateness" of talent for performing. It's got to be INSIDE you. There is ABSOLUTELY much that can be taught externally, BUT, the root of it is WITHIN your soul.
Teaching acting is impossible. Explaining it to you is possible. You can't force something off of somebody. You know, what I mean? Acting is feeling. ❤
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Somehow it's good to hear her say that she wouldn't know what to do if she were charged with teaching acting. I have taught dance, but always felt that it wasn't natural or easy for me, and I felt strangely ashamed of that. I used to figure, if I worked as a dancer for years, I should have the tools to teach it. Her statement validates that not everyone is necessarily meant to, or can do both.
Meryl has still retained her youthfulness. I look at her face and i can see her in the Deer Hunter, which is pretty amazing considering when where in our 70s we normally don't look like our youthful selves. I'm 51 and i would date Meryl in a heartbeat!
I honestly have no idea how the world will still turn when beauties like Meryl go 😭 Meryl, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton… they were my childhood memories and they are amazing! Still enjoy watching them now after 30 years. That’s real talent.
When it comes to the movie world, there are actresses, good actresses, very good actresses, brilliant actresses, and there is Meryl Streep, no one is even close to where she is, legend!
She speaks about acting in such a thorough, well thought out and simple way. Trully a plentiful video, despite being short. Her approach is very authentic and easy to understand because she knows what she's doing and how to describe it. I especially loved the part when she paralleled acting with children's make believe and how there's no room (or need) for doubt. That is such great advice. There's billions of people and thus billions of characters to play, thus any way you can play them is correct, as long as you fully commit to it, cos that's the human part that they need to have (100% present).
She’s so grounded. Ugh love it :) One of the most right field actresses we have working today. Seriously. She is very “all there.” It’s incredibly refreshing to see that in artists. When a person has intelligence, sensibility, logic AND a sort of enigmatic creativity.. that is something you can’t look away from. It makes an artist/individual an anomaly. That’s not just speaking on Streep, but every single artist who represents those qualities. It’s very very refreshing. The simple term: well rounded.
I was living in New Haven when she was going to Yale and was lucky enough to see and hear her perform and boy could she sing and dance...Wow ! Incredible acting ! It was obvious where she was headed 🎉
In an interview on “Inside the Actor’s Studio” Meryl was asked how she was able to immerse herself into a role (paraphrasing) and she said I’m afraid if I say it, I will lose it.
This is why funding the arts needs to be supported; it helps prevent people from wasting their time in careers they hate and having to switch over to something else later anyway.
That is such an amazing interview....her answers are just a testimony to how well she understands the craft...and then she is the craft. You are GOAT..🙇♀
That's awesome. We all are who we say and believe we are. But as a musician I can tell you, Meryl, that your ear for the music of language and accents is a giant coo in your natural ability of discernment and distillation. Anyone noticing this talent of yours is more than green or lazy. It requires quite a bit of ear training and focusing on very specific details to get a sound spot on. Many musicians aren't even aware of the depths of it as you are.
I just recently saw one of her older interviews and it made me realize that the way she speaks has significantly changed. In the older one she's very soft and almost sounds like Princess Diana. Here her voice is much louder, her inflections much more heightened and expressive.
She certainly made the right decision in her career choice. The questions and answers were great, though even if she has the ability to embody the mannerisms, voice, emotions of the characters she plays, what interests me is how one develops say, the discipline necessary in taking on an acting role and doing it so well. In my own case, I have no doubt, for example, that I paint very well and love it and a painter is who I am. But I hate to say, I have never managed the discipline needed to produce a large body of work or promote myself. Maybe I am inherently lazy, or maybe all successful people are workaholics? Hard to know.
Thanks for sharing one I can relate to not myself but my own mother is the one with Jack showing the great depression and the illusionary world that people dealt with at that time. But you definitely have the chops hope to one more at least at your convenience.
To think that doubting oneself,does not even occur to Meryl.We are amazing ,creative,powerful human beings! Take that from Meryl,make your own!That's the real you.Period!
I was at that hotel room one Sunday afternoon and this crazy film was being aired, "Florence Foster Jenkins". Meryl Streep is just this stupendous actress.
Exactly! Absolute belief - and the disciplined GENIUS to back it up!!! From a not-very-sharp interviewer, one of the most illuminating answers about acting ever elicited!
Thank you for your comment, and for the most part we completely agree. However the "not-very-sharp interviewer" actually knew what they were doing apparently.
Watching Meryl Streep outside of her mind blowing acting career, I still feel like she is acting all the time (and I don´t mean it in a bad way). She played so many characters, unbelievably believable in each, she is too good at this that watching her talk normally I feel like she´s each and every role, haha. :D Maybe it´s just me, but I really don´t know when Meryl is acting and when she is not acting :DDD
We moved to Connecticut in 1969 and immediately subscribed to Yale Rep, because of Robert Brustein. In the early 70s, the first play of the season was a dramatization of Dostoyevsky's "The Nihilist." The curtain was down for the first scene: two young actors approached each other from opposite sides. He was all in black, with a tangle of dark hair; she was in a long-skirted riding habit, a hat and perhaps a crop. They began to speak, contentiously. He was Christopher Lloyd. She was Meryl Streep. We knew right away about her, as my husband grabbed my arm and whispered: "she is really something." Indeed.
I just remember when our twice impeached ex- president called her an "overrated actress" 😂 I mean you can call a lot of other actresses as overrated, but that word won't EVER apply to Meryl Streep.
Interesting interview. Meryl Streep is like a female Tom Hanks, or should I say vice versa? 😄 They are both great actors, lived their lives without drama, intelligent, and class acts. 👏👍💖
