We’ve become accustomed to loving horrible people: Meryl Streep

Veteran Hollywood star Meryl Streep will be seen playing President Orlean, who knows how to navigate her way around the system, in the upcoming satirical science fiction comedy ‘Don’t Look Up’. She says the anti-heroine is much less common and that people have become accustomed to loving horrible individuals.

Talking about her role and how there’s been a rise in powerful female lead characters, Meryl said, “We’ve become accustomed to loving horrible people. The anti-heroine is much less common.” She added: “Take ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. Miranda Priestly is one of those people who’s disagreeable, but I understood her more because she had such a burden on her. But President Orlean wears the burden of leading the country very lightly.”

“She hardly gives a second thought to it. It’s really about self-aggrandizement.” Netflix’s upcoming satirical science fiction black comedy ‘Don’t Look Up’ tells the story of two low-level astronomers, who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy earth. The film features a stellar cast of Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill and Timothee Chalamet. It will start streaming on Netflix on December 24. Streep made her stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells and received a Tony Award nomination for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays in 1976.

In 1977, she made her film debut in “Julia.” In 1978, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her leading role in the mini-series Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for “The Deer Hunter.” She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979) and went on to establish herself as a film actor in the 1980s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in “Sophie’s Choice” (1982) and had her biggest commercial success to that point in “Out of Africa” (1985).

She continued to gain awards, and critical praise, for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s, but commercial success was varied, with the comedy “Death Becomes Her” (1992) and the drama “The Bridges of Madison County” (1995), her biggest earners in that period. Streep reclaimed her stardom in the 2000s and 2010s with starring roles in “Adaptation” (2002), “The Hours” (2002), “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), Doubt (2008), “Mamma Mia!” (2008), “Julie & Julia” (2009), “It’s Complicated” (2009), “Into the Woods” (2014), “The Post” (2017) and “Little Women” (2019). She also won her third Academy Award for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” (2011). Her stage roles include “The Public Theater’s” 2001 revival of The Seagull, and her television roles include two projects for HBO, the miniseries “Angels in America” (2003), for which she won another Emmy Award, and the drama series “Big Little Lies” (2019).

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