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
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.
@@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
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. ❤
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
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 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 🎉
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!
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..🙇♀
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Well, it was more about the feeling of being afraid of getting it wrong than dwelling on her accents as the standout thing in her work or her projects as a whole. Still a question about accent, but not the kind that minimizes the rest of the work. I love her answer though. It was so creative, intuitive, and introspective.
@@hollystiener16 To her it is. Whatever her perspective and reasoning for that, is what it is. To some, like you it isn't. Who knows why opinions differ, but her statement may have been too harsh and could have been said in a different, more nuanced way when describing have she felt personally on the focus of the accent. She stated that "it is like focusing on one color of a painting." Her sentiment about the viewer or journalist ONLY focusing on the accent when it comes to the performance or movie is an assumption and also approaching the topic too literally. It is something that people are fascinated by and that fascination is not intended to dismiss the rest of thecwork.
@@hollystiener16 so bcuz you claim to be an actor, Ms. Holly Steiner, that means that gives you the right to invalidate another actors unique perspective and point of view? Especially Meryl Streep who is arguably the greatest of all time? Interesting. Good luck in your career. I’ll keep my eyes pealed.
@@srldwg I am not claiming to be an actress. Since each part is the sum of a whole, the accent is an important piece to discuss. I understood her analogy. I more think that it is so easy or just comes naturally for her to do accents that it seems boring to her.
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.
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.
She seems like such a grounded, good, comfortable person. A calming presence. She’s one of the greatest if not the greatest of our era.
Not the greatest sorry Katrine Hepburn en Audrey are the greatest!
We will never know if she is such a person truly 😂😂😂 she is a great actress after all
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!!!!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
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
Sophie's choice should've been her instead of the kids.
Why did you forget it now?
@@HansDelbruck53 I didn't
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.
Her friends said she did it very well?! She's the greatest actress of the last 50 years. Nobody will ever come close to her phenomenal versatility.
Cate Blanchett is also awesome. Sometimes I didn't even recognise her in a role she's such a chameleon...
@@lone982 I was about to say that. Love both!
Debra Winger, Cate Blanchet, Isabelle Adjani, Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Diane Keaton, Audrey Hepburn, Elisabeth Taylor, Liv Ullman, etc, etc, etc, etc ...
She Is a Marvel and so dedicated to giving 100 percent!
@@kahinalou3992 True!!!!
Such a legend,she's been a bit quiet lately,i'd love to see her on the big screen in a good dramatic role.
Meryl has been shooting Only Murders in the Building Season 3. Can’t wait for that, it’s a great show
But have you seen the scripts lately? She can't play a super hero!
@@wokeisnonsense I definitely don't want to see her doing that sort of role,something like The Hours or Silkwood.
@@leightonbate7516 yes she’s supposed be shooting a film about broadway
@@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
"I´m a conduit for that empathy".
Humble and honest about the work. Magnificent!
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. ❤
@@rudolfspitz I know EXACTLY what you mean. 1,000% 👍❤️
Such a grounded person filled with humility. She is each and every character she has played.
her range is immeasurable. she's always so interesting to watch.
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).
Wow, poetically written.
@@AnomalyBelleza Poetic? That comment reminds me of a line in Hello, Dolly. The one about money being like manure; it needs to be spread around.
she's got to be one of the greatest ever
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.
And yet people hate her now,my own family included,,bc she DARED speak negatively about Trump!😢
She is acting.
@@cathalsurfs Nope!
Thank god she overslept! ❤
I hope Meryl keeps acting until she can no longer. She is a great gift to the theatrical community.
True actors are multi-faceted diamonds
Remarkable genius of a woman. She makes everything so believable
And Meryl is brilliant at making us feel what her character feel , she embodied them so well ! she´s amazing !
So that's what a great actor is? Making us feel what she is feeling throughout the duration of the movie?
She's such a brilliant woman. And so good natured. It's gotta be a pleasure interviewing Meryl Streep.
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).
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.
She is mesmerizing and intelligent and beautiful both on the inside and out. My favourite actress.
I have so much admiration for her. Hope she's with us for a very long time.
Thanks 🙏 we were so lucky to have Meryl in our timeline, she truly brings so much joy to the big screen.
were?? She's still around!
"I think I am who I think I am." I heart MS
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.
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!
Cate Blanchett easily
@@rics1883no.
She is so lovely
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.
Marvellous Meryl.The best!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
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 🎉
I love Meryl Streep so much. She is always incredible to watch.
SHE JUST MADE A LOOOOOTTT OF SENSE. I FEEL LIKE MY ADMIRATION TO HER JUST WENT UP A LEVEL. Thanks for this
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!
The interview is from 2009 when she was around 59-60 but yes, Meryl still looks great.
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..🙇♀
An amazing woman...I could listen to her for hours.
i could listen to you strangling for hours
Love this woman ❤
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.
Yep!
What a blast it would be to have dinner with Meryl Streep, Cher and Sally Field!!!!!
I just watched Out of Africa again after almost 40 years, she is superb in all she does.❤
Thank you, Meryl Street. Your answers show why you are such a very good actress ✨✨✨
An exceptional actress of many of my favorite movies. I hope the roles keep coming for such a talent! 🙏❤️
What an amazing answer, to the accent question!
I love her! She is a beautiful woman with immense talent! I would love to see more of her ❤
She’s is such a living legend, a chameleon actress, so transformative and convincing… utterly brilliant!!! 🦋❤️🔥
Love her honesty and the simplicity to explain things
Well... worked out splendidly for her.
She's outstanding✨💯
Such a class act. Nobody comes close.
Thank you so much dearest Meryl Streep, you are the one I follow in my acting as well as Marlon Brando. You both are muses for me.
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.
I think this was a BRILLIANT interview. It was your choice of questions.
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 probably has a lot more confidence in herself
❤The one and only❤The most gifted actress of all time!! ❤True Legend❤Iconic moviestar❤love from Finland
I LOVE THIS WOMAN SO MUCH. SHE'S SUCH A LEGEND, A UNIQUE TALENT.
Crazy, crazy talented! 💙
Meryl Streep is one of the best actresses !! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
she's so intelligent
I'm sure you have to be very bright to be a good actor
What a wonderful interview 👍👍
An accent in a performance = a color in a painting 👌🏻
I could keep listening to her forever ❤❤
The best. Period. Watch her use her props onscreen. She uses them organically to connect deeper into her characters.
Thank you. That's something to look out for the next time I watch a film of hers.
Wow I love the black and white. Very easy to watch for some reason.
Agree.
I LOVE HER
The greatest ever 🙌🏻
If the talent is not there there is not much a person can do no matter how many acting lessons you take ,that is the bare truth !
Such a legend ❤
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!
A true performance artist
shush no one wants to hear it
Fine actress and equally fine lady.
Last sequence is very profound. I AM who I AM. Mystic, really.
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.
love her
She could teach acting as she is such a natural teacher.
Brilliant actress. Meryl Streep, will win another Oscar before her career is over.
Queen❣
Happy birthday at meryl for her 75 years from italian boy live in rome
Meryl Steep in graduate school: "I don't think I'm good enough to make acting a career." Let that sink in.
Just one of our national treasures
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
Meril Strip & Laura Linney 👍🔥
Thank you for your love, Meryl. I miss my life. Prada will always be one of my favorites. (However, I think the ending should be different. Lol)
Lynn❤
Queen ♥️
So excited for her in Only Murders in the Building.
Amazing.
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.
Eternally classy!
"I think I am what I say I am." -- The thing is, we think she is who she says she is, too. ♥
Diese Frau ist genial, bodenständig und sympathisch! Wow.
"being asked about accents is lazy journalism"
*interviewer proceeds to ask another question about accent
"So there!" said Meryl Streep.
Hello, good evening and I hope all’s fine you there. Hope to hear from you soon...Ok
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.
Her and Robin Williams are so similar in their aura’s and presence, the way they speak.
She calls asking about the accent lazy journalism... and he proceeds to ask another question about the accent lol
haha. I noticed. it really is interesting to understand how she develops the various accents. I am an actress and the question is not lazy journalism.
Well, it was more about the feeling of being afraid of getting it wrong than dwelling on her accents as the standout thing in her work or her projects as a whole. Still a question about accent, but not the kind that minimizes the rest of the work.
I love her answer though. It was so creative, intuitive, and introspective.
@@hollystiener16 To her it is. Whatever her perspective and reasoning for that, is what it is.
To some, like you it isn't.
Who knows why opinions differ, but her statement may have been too harsh and could have been said in a different, more nuanced way when describing have she felt personally on the focus of the accent. She stated that "it is like focusing on one color of a painting." Her sentiment about the viewer or journalist ONLY focusing on the accent when it comes to the performance or movie is an assumption and also approaching the topic too literally. It is something that people are fascinated by and that fascination is not intended to dismiss the rest of thecwork.
@@hollystiener16 so bcuz you claim to be an actor, Ms. Holly Steiner, that means that gives you the right to invalidate another actors unique perspective and point of view? Especially Meryl Streep who is arguably the greatest of all time? Interesting. Good luck in your career. I’ll keep my eyes pealed.
@@srldwg I am not claiming to be an actress. Since each part is the sum of a whole, the accent is an important piece to discuss. I understood her analogy. I more think that it is so easy or just comes naturally for her to do accents that it seems boring to her.
She’s 73 ….. wtffff fine as hell
Well this interview is from 2009
There is no one better
I love me some Meryl Streep 🥰
More! More! (And thanks for this.)
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.
The goat for sure
GREATEST OF ALL TIME, for anyone unfamiliar with the acronym
Happy birthday meryl from italian boy live in rome
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.