Three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep revealed her admiration for actresses who transition into production after achieving big-screen fame in an onstage conversation Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival.
“There are so many women who produce for themselves, and I’m so in awe of those who do,” Reese said [Witherspoon] And Nicole [Kidman], Natalie Portman. “Everyone has their own production company,” she said.
“I have a children’s production company and that’s what I produce, but I never wanted to take phone calls after seven o’clock at night. So, I never did that. I’m in awe of the people who do that,” said Streep, who has previously highlighted that she is a mother. “There are only so many hours in the day.”
Streep was speaking in front of a packed Debussy Theater in Cannes, where she received an honorary Palme d’Or on Tuesday evening.
The actress admitted she was feeling a bit fuzzy after staying up until 3am at the opening ceremony, where she was discussing the opening by French director Quentin Dupieux. The second law.
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Addressing the changes that have occurred for women in the industry over her 50-year, nearly 100-credit career, Streep noted that the emergence of female executives has been a game-changer for actresses, both in terms of pay and the types of roles on offer.
“The biggest stars in the world are women right now… although… there’s Tom Cruise. It’s a lot different than when I started out… how they did the deals, there was a lot of leverage and trading… you know ‘I’m going to give you this big male star…’ I’m not sure how that worked at the time but we were undermining those negotiations.”
“Movies are a projection of people’s dreams, even CEOs have dreams… Before there were women greenlit at studios, it was very difficult for men to see themselves in the role of a female lead… It’s a personal thing… No It’s just about money…they don’t get it.
“The first movie I ever made had a guy come up to me and say, ‘I know how you feel.’” The devil wears Prada,” she said, referring to the 2006 hit film in which she played the editor of a powerful New York City-based fashion magazine.
“More than one man came up to me and said, ‘I know how you feel. I know what it’s like to be the one who makes the decisions.’ That was great for me. There’s no man watching.” Deer hunter And I feel like a girl, but I can watch The Deer hunter And getting to know John Savage, Chris Walken’s character, Robert De Niro. We can do it. We speak that language. “It is difficult for them to feel us.”
The comprehensive discussion touched on a number of Streep’s major film credits kramer vs kramer, deer hunter, Sophie’s choice, Outside Africa And Madison County Bridges And her experiences with working directors such as Mike Nichols, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood.
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She remembered Nichols, who directed her Silkwood (1983), heartburn (1986), Postcards from the edge (1990) affectionately: “He would sit at the camera, and when he laughed, tears would flow down his face. This was great and probably strategic because it made us feel powerful and awesome and that anything we did was awesome.
Spielberg worked in a completely different way, she said: “He’s a genius and he has a great understanding of the scene. Mike was interested in the interactions between the characters. Spielberg’s film is about the whole action, the whole piece. Mike would add that later with his editor Sam O’Steen. He would make the music then.” Steven already has the song in his head.
As for Eastwood, Streep recalled how he was a very efficient and quick director on the 1995 drama Madison Country Bridgesand may sometimes use the footage in training if they are successful.
“He made this movie in five weeks, and we would be out by five so he could be on the golf course. It was so fast…” she said.
When asked what makes a good director, Streep answered unequivocally: “A good director is a confident director, and that’s the most important thing. He really wants to be there and knows what he wants to say… Great directors make the film happy too, they make it happy.” Enjoyable.