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Meryl Streep Joins ‘Big Little Lies,’ Ellen Pompeo’s Money Talk, and the Latest in Celeb Real Estate | Jam Session (Ep. 418)

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Ringer's Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins discuss the news about Meryl Streep joining the cast of ‘Big Little Lies’ (0:58), what Ellen Pompeo had to say about being the highest-paid woman in a prime-time drama (13:26), and the magical world of celebrity real estate and HGTV (24:26). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Juliette. We're about to do jam session, but first, now that the college

0:05.4

football season has ended, we've rebranded our Ringer University podcast feed to be through

0:10.4

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0:14.7

This Week in Ringer Culture and This Week in Ringer Sports. Those come out on Saturday.

0:18.7

It's also where you can hear some of our special projects, one-off stories, and new shows

0:22.2

we're working on behind the scenes. So if you want to hear all of our best culture

0:25.4

and support the podcast moments in some of our special projects, subscribe through the

0:29.3

Ringer on Apple Podcasts, Stitch or Spotify, or wherever you listen to them, let's jam.

0:40.1

Welcome to Jam Session, I'm Juliette Lippman. I'm Amanda Dobbins. It's a week of passions.

0:44.9

We're just leaning into the things we love. Namely, real estate, what's coming at the end?

0:49.7

Grace Anatomy, kinda. Coming in the middle. One member of Grace Anatomy and all of the

0:55.4

riches in the world. And first, big little eyes news. Just broke. Luckily, push back our

1:00.8

taping today. It's come to light. It's broken out to the news. That Merrill Streep, she

1:07.7

of 22 Oscar nominations, will be starring in season two of Big Little Eyes, or if not

1:12.7

starring appearing. I think that she'll play a major role because she's Merrill Streep.

1:16.7

How much do you think she's getting paid? I'm so glad you asked because I have the facts

1:19.9

right here, according to variety, she will make around $800,000 per episode. And there's

1:24.7

10 episodes. I don't know whether they've announced that there were seven of the first

1:28.7

seven or eight of the first season. I can't imagine they would do 10. Making minimum $5

1:32.7

million off of her seven episodes. You have to assume that that is kind of the asking

1:37.0

rate for Merrill Streep's time. I think that seems low to be quite honest. Well, maybe

1:41.4

she's doing it for fun. Maybe the role's not that big. Maybe Merrill Streep, like the

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