Meryl Streep Acting Tips
Photograph: © Darla Khazei, PacificCoastNews.com
Acting living legend Meryl Streep laughs at the mythology surrounding her and shares her views from acting to botox during the Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on 07 October 2009.
A Fixation on Theatre
“I was fixed on the theatre, I was doing the Taming of the Shrew in Central Park at the same time, and I was doing reshoots of Kramer vs. Kramer, and Woody Allen’s [Manhattan ] — all in the same four weeks in August.”
An Attraction for Disagreeable Characters
“I have looked at and loved and been drawn to women who are disagreeable on some level — tricky, weird, stupid, too smart for their own good, mean, weak. I like, I like the frailty. It’s because it feels real, feels like life to me.”
Being in the Moment
“Occasionally, you just surprise yourself, you don’t know what’s going to bubble up, you don’t know what acting’s going to throw at you. It’s sort of the great zen thing about acting. It only exists in that moment, and then they capture it on film and it’s thrown out there.”
The Importance of Empathy
People get to feel along with you and if you’re lucky, they feel like you and that is the great miracle of empathy, and it’s sort of a thing that human beings have that they don’t use enough of. We crave it, it’s why we go to the movies, even unpleasant movies because we want to feel that somebody knows how we feel.”
On Formal Training
Do it later. Learn about everything else first. Formal training is overrated
On Botox
It interrupts the energy.
Quotations are from cbcnews.ca and the twitter account of Lainey Gossip
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