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Awards Chatter

Meryl Streep - 'Florence Foster Jenkins'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The legendary actress, who's poised to add to a string of summer hits unprecedented for a woman over 60, sounds off on why its 'bad business' to bet against women, why Oscars matter, why 'the greatest' label gives her 'agita' and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and today it is an incredible privilege

0:48.1

to welcome as my guest a woman whom most people including me regard as the greatest film actress of all time,

0:55.0

Merrill Streep.

0:56.3

The 67-year-old has set the bar for nearly 40 years, giving performances for the ages in

1:01.1

the deer hunter, Kramer versus Kramer the French

1:03.2

lieutenants woman so if he's choice silkwood out of Africa ironweed a cry in the

1:07.5

dark postcards from the edge the bridges of Madison County adaptation the hours the

1:11.9

devil wears Prada doubt julian julia and the iron and Holocaust and Angels in America and on the stage.

1:23.1

Her latest great performance comes in Florence Foster Jenkins, a movie which hits theaters on Friday.

1:28.8

Under the direction of Stephen Freers and opposite Hugh Grant, she plays the title character, a rich New York socialite who loved to sing opera, but unbeknownst to her, had a painfully awful voice.

1:40.0

In the hands of almost any other actress, this character would have been played one dimensionally and proved grading.

1:45.6

But in the hands of Merrill Streep, humor and heart and humanity always shine through,

1:51.0

and this film is no exception.

1:53.0

Thanks to a series of advanced screenings for press and tastemaker, Streep's performance is already

1:57.6

generating the sort of buzz that suggests it could bring her a record extending 20th

2:01.8

acting Oscar nomination.

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