Meryl Streepis an undisputed legend by anyone’s measure.
The actress is singular in her talents, with aresumethat would knock anyone’s socks off.
If there’s a more gifted thespian out there, we’re not aware of it.
Read on to learn everything we found about Meryl Streep’s stunning transformation.
Additionally, Streep’s mother encouraged her at every turn, telling her how fantastic and capable she was.
“She was saying, ‘you might do whatever you put your mind to.
If you’re lazy, you’re not going to get it done.
But if you put your mind to it, you’re able to do anything.’
And I believed her.”
Clearly, Mom was onto something, because Streep’s confidence started building from that day forward.
However, she wasn’t exactly into the opera lessons she was taking when she was 13 years old.
“I liked cheerleading and boys,” she explained in an interview withNPR.
“That was what I was interested in, and Barbra Streisand, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.”
That sounds like a typical teenager, that’s for sure.
This included a production ofThe Music Man, which she’d also seen on Broadway.
Those experiences rendered Streep enamored of music.
“But I loved singing,” she continued.
“I loved it.
And I did have a very good coloratura.”
I had no other way of expressing," she added.
So how did she navigate those difficult and uncharted waters?
By doing what she knew.
She even changed the way she laughed and tempered her personality to be more agreeable.
“Opinions were not attractive,” she remembered learning.
“I recognized early on that that wasn’t attractive on a date.”
Oh, the struggle is real for us all, Meryl.
“I wasn’t aware of designing myself in high school,” she explained in a chat withNPR.
What a nice change that had to be!
If you imagine that was a liberating experience for Streep, you’d be absolutely correct.
“I felt free,” she continued.
“It was the classic consciousness-raising time when people were earnestly talking about ‘What’s a woman?
What’s our role in the world?'”
We love to hear about it.
There, she completed a three-year program with a small, mostly-male class.
“I had a ball, but it was really hard,” she told theHartford Courant.
Shortly thereafter, Streep was cast inThe Deer Hunter, alongside Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken.
Streep and Cazalewere local legends, beloved and even envied by their peers.
However, tragedy struck just a year later, when Cazale was diagnosed with lung cancer the terminal kind.
“I was going crazy,” she continued.
“John was sick, and I wanted to be with him.”
May his memory be a blessing.
Such was the case for a grieving Meryl Streep in 1978.
But upon her return to New York City, Streep found herself thrown out of her apartment.
Six months later, she and Gummer were married.
Hey, when you know, youknow.
However, the film is not without its enduring controversy.
“And you see it in the movie.
It was overstepping.”
“There was an offense and it is something for which Dustin apologized,” they toldE!.
“And Meryl accepted that.”
“I think I was wired for family,” she explained toPeople.
“You know how they say people are wired for religion, or wired for this or that?
“Parenting is really expertise on the fly,” she continued.
“You make it up as you go along.
I back Don up.
He is my backup.”
Maybe celebrities really are just like us after all?
However, there were a few moments along the way that even Streep fell prey to Hollywood’s ageism.
To play three different witches in three different contexts,” she revealed in a chat withNPR.
“Her husband knows I love her.
Michelle knows I love her.
There’s nothing they can do about it.”
“She’s done it all for her craft,” he added.
Other nods includedAugust: Osage County,Into the Woods,Florence Foster Jenkins, andThe Post.
That’s hardly an extensive list, but you get the idea.
“I just don’t get it,” she proclaimed in an interview withGood Housekeeping.
“You have to embrace getting older.
Louder again for the people in the back, Meryl!
As if we could love her any more.
