The actress with every record, twenty-one Oscar nominations, three statuettes, around ninety performances, queen of cinema and TV series (fabulous in recent years both Big little lies that in Only murders in the building), Meryl Streep to the numerous awards received in almost fifty years of career, she adds the Palme d’Or for her career which will be awarded to her in Cannes on the opening night (14 May).
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“I am immensely honored to receive this prestigious award – commented the actress – Winning an award at Cannes, for the international community of artists, has always represented the highest achievement in the art of cinema. Standing in the shadow of those previously honored is humbling and emotional in equal measure. I can’t wait to come to France to thank everyone in person this May.”
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The face torn apart by the concentration camp (Sophie’s Choice), electric blue hair (Into the woods), that liquid look of an interrupted mother (Kramer vs. Kramer), the loose, unruly hair of an almost sixty-year-old hippie (Oh mama), Thatcher’s Eighties makeover (Iron lady), the imposing presence of the chef Julia Child (Julie & Julia), the severity of her sister Aloysius Beauvier’s gaze (The doubt) and the sweetness of Karen Blixen (My Africa). We could go on forever, how many women, how many complex femininity the most nominated actress in the history of the Oscars brought to the big screen, twenty-one nominations equal to no other, not even in the male category. At 75 years old (she will turn 22 on June 22nd) the actress doesn’t stop putting herself out there, as demonstrated by the character of Loretta, a theater veteran who has spent her entire career waiting for her big break, in the comedy mystery series with Selena Gomez, Steve Martin And Martin Short.
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“In the right place at the right time” this is, according to the New Jersey actress, the secret of her long and extraordinary career as an actress and to think that as a girl she dreamed of being an opera singer. In reality there is much more to this artist’s parable, almost fifty years dedicated to cinema and to bringing the complexity of women back to the big screen. Raised by a combative mother and grandmother, Meryl Streep has always had strong female role models and is proud to have brought to the cinema many women who have left their mark, remember that in addition to Margaret Thatcher, Streep also embodied the icon of feminism, Emmeline Pankhurst mother of all suffragettes. But her cinematic models were Italian actresses. Every time she came to Italy she did not miss the opportunity to pay homage to them, by collecting her gold Marc’Aurelio she had mentioned them in Italian one by one: “Let’s not forget Giulietta Masina, Silvana Mangano, Anna Magnani And Our Lady Eleonora Duse“. Years later, still in Rome, he held a meeting with an audience dedicated to them: “They are all different and unique – he told us – but among them there are two that I find truly magnificent: Anna Magnani and Silvana Mangano, completely different in their approach to cinema, with a different power in their way of expressing themselves. But there was something in their soul, something particular that they revealed while acting without filter. For me as a young actress it was a great lesson and still is when I watch their films.”
