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).
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 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).
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.
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.
Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you!
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 🎉
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!
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.
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..🙇♀
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!
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.
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 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!
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.
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
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.
Interesting interview. Meryl Streep is like a female Tom Hanks, or should I say vice versa? 😄 They are both great actors, lived their lives without drama, intelligent, and class acts. 👏👍💖
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.
Thanks for sharing one I can relate to not myself but my own mother is the one with Jack showing the great depression and the illusionary world that people dealt with at that time. But you definitely have the chops hope to one more at least at your convenience.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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!!!!
"I think I am who I think I am." I heart MS
"I´m a conduit for that empathy".
Humble and honest about the work. Magnificent!
She is so lovely
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% 👍❤️
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).
Such a grounded person filled with humility. She is each and every character she has played.
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!
she's got to be one of the greatest ever
She's such a brilliant woman. And so good natured. It's gotta be a pleasure interviewing Meryl Streep.
I have so much admiration for her. Hope she's with us for a very long time.
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.
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 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).
Remarkable genius of a woman. She makes everything so believable
She is mesmerizing and intelligent and beautiful both on the inside and out. My favourite actress.
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!
I love Meryl Streep so much. She is always incredible to watch.
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.
Love this woman ❤
Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you!
She's outstanding✨💯
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 🎉
What an amazing answer, to the accent question!
True actors are multi-faceted diamonds
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
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 ✨✨✨
What a blast it would be to have dinner with Meryl Streep, Cher and Sally Field!!!!!
SHE JUST MADE A LOOOOOTTT OF SENSE. I FEEL LIKE MY ADMIRATION TO HER JUST WENT UP A LEVEL. Thanks for this
Love her honesty and the simplicity to explain things
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!
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 exceptional actress of many of my favorite movies. I hope the roles keep coming for such a talent! 🙏❤️
The greatest ever 🙌🏻
She’s is such a living legend, a chameleon actress, so transformative and convincing… utterly brilliant!!! 🦋❤️🔥
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.
An amazing woman...I could listen to her for hours.
i could listen to you strangling for hours
I LOVE HER
❤The one and only❤The most gifted actress of all time!! ❤True Legend❤Iconic moviestar❤love from Finland
I hope Meryl keeps acting until she can no longer. She is a great gift to the theatrical community.
Well... worked out splendidly for her.
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.
I love her! She is a beautiful woman with immense talent! I would love to see more of her ❤
Meryl Streep is one of the best actresses !! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a wonderful interview 👍👍
I think this was a BRILLIANT interview. It was your choice of questions.
Crazy, crazy talented! 💙
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.
Such a class act. Nobody comes close.
Wow I love the black and white. Very easy to watch for some reason.
Agree.
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?
An accent in a performance = a color in a painting 👌🏻
I could keep listening to her forever ❤❤
I LOVE THIS WOMAN SO MUCH. SHE'S SUCH A LEGEND, A UNIQUE TALENT.
Such a legend ❤
Last sequence is very profound. I AM who I AM. Mystic, really.
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
Queen❣
she's so intelligent
I'm sure you have to be very bright to be a good actor
Thank god she overslept! ❤
Eternally classy!
More! More! (And thanks for this.)
Fine actress and equally fine lady.
A true performance artist
shush no one wants to hear it
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!
So excited for her in Only Murders in the Building.
"So there!" said Meryl Streep.
Hello, good evening and I hope all’s fine you there. Hope to hear from you soon...Ok
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.
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.
Amazing.
love her
Just one of our national treasures
She could teach acting as she is such a natural teacher.
She’s 73 ….. wtffff fine as hell
Well this interview is from 2009
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 !
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
Diese Frau ist genial, bodenständig und sympathisch! Wow.
Meryl Steep in graduate school: "I don't think I'm good enough to make acting a career." Let that sink in.
There is no one better
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.
Beautiful... teachrer..
Interesting interview. Meryl Streep is like a female Tom Hanks, or should I say vice versa? 😄 They are both great actors, lived their lives without drama, intelligent, and class acts. 👏👍💖
I love me some Meryl Streep 🥰
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.
Thanks for sharing one I can relate to not myself but my own mother is the one with Jack showing the great depression and the illusionary world that people dealt with at that time. But you definitely have the chops hope to one more at least at your convenience.
Meryl Streep Fenomen Women ❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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.
The goat for sure
GREATEST OF ALL TIME, for anyone unfamiliar with the acronym
Her and Robin Williams are so similar in their aura’s and presence, the way they speak.
"I think I am what I say I am." -- The thing is, we think she is who she says she is, too. ♥
I always had this image I don’t cast. However, She should’ve played Phoebe’s mother in Friends in just one episode.
Happy birthday meryl from italian boy live in rome
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❤
“I think I am who I say am I”!