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Few prizes were missing from a list of winners that has a lot of everything. At 73 years old, Meryl Streep fattens her acknowledgment even more with the Princess of Asturias Award for Arts, an award that rewards a career dedicated to acting. The jury rewarded the actress for having developed, over five decades, “a brilliant career chaining performances in which she gives life to rich and complex female characters, which invite reflection and the formation of the viewer’s critical spirit”, with a filmography in which he highlights “the honesty and responsibility in the choice of his works, at the service of inspiring and exemplary narratives.” The Princess of Asturias 2023 joins other great recognitions, including several Emmy, SAG, Bafta, a Donostia from the San Sebastian Festival and another from Cannes, as well as Tony and Grammy nominations.
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Born in New Jersey, Streep made her debut on the charts with ‘The Playboy of Seville’ (1971), saw the potential of the series before her peers did by participating in ‘Holocaust’ (1978) and ended up propping up her talent on the big screen. It was in the movies where she improved her gift to blend in with whoever she touched.
She’s never been a classic Elizabeth Taylor beauty or a normal girl like Debbie Reynolds was, but she’s capable of being both. In just one lifetime, Meryl Streep has lived through hundreds of them. She fell for Clint Eastwood’s gunslinger look in ‘The Bridges of Madison’ and spread terror as the fashion tyrant in ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’ She let Robert Redford wash her hair with a pitcher of cold water in her African adventure as Karen and held her own against politics by transforming, with her teeth, into Margaret Thatcher.
Without fear of anything, Meryl Streep has alternated drama and comedy with equal reliability, in the same way that she has dared to try musicals like ‘Mamma Mia!’.
A gift for accents
Nothing resists the interpreter, who has been Polish, Danish and British with little effort, thanks to her ability to imitate accents, one of her most sought-after talents and, nevertheless, a nuance that she understands is essential to get under the skin from someone else. “How am I going to play a role and speak as I speak?”, he replied when asked about the skill that he has displayed in films such as ‘Out of Africa’, ‘Sophie’s Decision’ or ‘The Lady de hierro’, the latter winners of their second and third Oscar awards, respectively. The first was picked up for her role as a divorced mother in ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ in 1980, where she received hostilities from a Dustin Hoffman who came to slap her after the scene in which her character tells the actor that she is leaving him, but that he will not take his son.
More Oscar nominations than anyone
A methodical actress, inherited from the rigor with which she alternated popularity with excellence during her adolescence, she has defied Hollywood’s calculations by surviving the obsolescence to which the industry relegates actresses over fifty. With 21 nominations, no one has as many Oscar nominations as her. The first of her came a year after making her film debut, with the film ‘The Hunter’ (1979), where Robert de Niro took her to the altar. The only reason Meryl Streep accepted the role of the cashier Linda, “the one forgotten in the script and also in the lives of the other characters”, was to spend more time with John Cazale, her first great love and for then terminal it. “When I saw that girl there (in the hospital) with him, I thought there was nothing like it. That is what is important to me. As good as she is at her job, that’s what I always remember when I think of her,” Al Pacino said decades later.
But there were many more nominations. At 73, Streep is still chasing her big pending account. The last of her for ‘The Pentagon files’, six years ago. She is, for many, the best actress of her generation, and for others even the best living actress, but she still lacks a milestone: achieving the fourth statuette and equaling the record still held by Katharine Hepburn, who received all the best actress awards. , never secondary.
Dedicated to philanthropic work and starring in all the memes of her latest public appearances – her fervent applause at the Oscars pre Will Smith is still used – in recent years Meryl Streep has cultivated a lower profile. She has been secondary to movies like the new version of ‘Little Women’ or ‘Don’t Look Up’, and luxury in her return to television, where she has given cachet to series like ‘Big Little Lies’ as the mother-in-law of Nicole Kidman. After her last role on the small screen, ‘A challenging future’, went unnoticed, she has already announced her signing for the new installment of the successful sitcom ‘Only murders in the building’.
2023-04-26 10:26:22
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