Meryl Streep

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q873: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Still of the Night (1982); Falling in Love (1984); A Cry in the Dark (1988); Postcards from the Edge (1990); Adaptation (2002); The Hours (2002); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); The Devil Wears Prada (2006); Lions for Lambs (2007); Rendition (2007); Doubt (2008); Mamma Mia! (2008); It's Complicated (2009); Julie & Julia (2009); The Iron Lady (2011); Into the Woods (2014); The Giver (2014); Ricki and the Flash (2015); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); Little Women (2019); The Laundromat (2019); Don't Look Up (2021); Death Becomes Her; Hope Springs; Prime; Ricky and the Flash; Suffragette; The Bridges of Madison County.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

ABBA: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read). The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs.
    “It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Avy Kaufman: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Lions for Lambs (2007), which they acted in: Avy Kaufman ⇒ Lions for Lambs (the maker said so: Garfield telling his own casting story on the show). The casting director on the unmade Kavalier & Clay passed Garfield's screen test to Robert Redford, which led to his Lions for Lambs audition and casting.
    “AV sent, I think, a screen test to Redford.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:41:21 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)

Carrie Fisher: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Postcards from the Edge (1990), which they acted in: Carrie Fisher ⇒ Postcards from the Edge (the host's read). Postcards is a Mike Nichols film written by Carrie Fisher from her novel.
    “Which is a Mike Nichols film, written by Carrie Fisher”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Mrs. Dalloway: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Hours (2002), which they acted in: Mrs. Dalloway ⇒ The Hours (the host's read). The Hours is a nesting-doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, with Kidman as Virginia Woolf in one of three timelines.
    “It's like a nesting doll take on Mrs. Dalloway, the Virginia Wolf novel.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:13:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

West Side Story (2021): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read). In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story.
    “they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1988): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Devil Wears Prada (2006), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
    “And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read). The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos.
    “can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (43) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career run): Meryl Streep → Mamma Mia!. Ricki is the end of Streep's run as a lead in studio comedies, which began with Mamma Mia and the Devil Wears Prada.
    “this is also kind of the end of the Merrill leading lady studio comedy run”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (late-career genre run): Meryl Streep → Liam Neeson. Streep's 60s run of $100M comedies is likened to Liam Neeson's action run.
    “It's like she did the comedy version of the Liam Neeson action run.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:29:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Meryl Streep → The Devil Wears Prada. Mamma Mia followed Devil Wears Prada almost immediately, proving Streep in her 50s was a $100 million box-office draw.
    “Yeah. You know, the greatest actress of her generation. In her 50s is commanding multiple $100 million movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Meryl Streep → Florence Foster Jenkins. Streep keeps singing on film, and Florence Foster Jenkins riffs on her not being a great singer.
    “Florence Foster Jenkins is so funny, though, because it's kind of a riff on how she can't really sing that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Meryl Streep → Ricky and the Flash. Streep plays a rock front woman in the Jonathan Demme film, another case of her loving to sing.
    “Ricky and the Flash. That's what I was trying to think.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Nicole Kidman → Meryl Streep. Because she makes up to five films a year, Kidman is not a rare object like Brad Pitt or Meryl Streep.
    “So she doesn't hold that same level of, 0 my gosh, Brad Pitt is at the party or 0 my goodness, it's Meryl Streeper.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:43:40 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Melanie Griffith → Meryl Streep. Griffith plays the lead by receding, not raising her voice, like Streep in Prada.
    “And they're, and they recede a little and they don't always raise the voice, Meryl Streep and Deborah, where's Prada being the other one?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (awards-theory): Robert Downey Jr. → Meryl Streep. Streep keeps getting nominated because she visibly changes things up; Downey should surprise audiences similarly.
    “I'm not saying she's always good, but she is always at least changing it up.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:27:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (prior collaboration): Meryl Streep → The Manchurian Candidate. Demme worked with Streep on The Manchurian Candidate, so they had an existing relationship.
    “He worked with Meryl on the Venturian candidates.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:20:40 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Mike Nichols → Meryl Streep. Nichols worked with Streep three times and wrote strong women.
    “works with Meryl Streep 3 times.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:42:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Meryl Streep → Into the Woods. Streep was in Into the Woods, but Sean skips it because he dislikes the Rob Marshall production and the show itself.
    “But, um, I mean, Meryl Streep was into the woods.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:06:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (dismissed): Meryl Streep → The Laundromat. Worst Putters and Murmurs: dislikes her slightly haunted older lady mode and the brown-face.
    “Meryl Streep in the laundromat.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:21:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Meryl Streep → Glenn Close. Recasting couch: Streep in the Glenn Close part, Close in the Mary Kay Place part.
    “Meryl Streep's in the Glen Close part.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:25:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Meryl Streep → Salt. The hosts joke about casting Streep in Wanted or Salt in place of Angelina Jolie.
    “Meryl does have like a regal Russian quality to it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Meryl Streep: Bobby complimented Florence Foster Jenkins to Streep in an elevator and she replied 'sometimes you need little tonic', raising his opinion of the film from C-plus to A-minus.
    “I will never top the moment when I complimented Florence Foster Jenkins too, Meryl Streep in an elevator and she said, sometimes you need little tonic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:22:09 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Meryl Streep: Streep's half-braid hairstyle makes her look alt without altering her; when the braids come out she is just Meryl again and the illusion breaks.
    “The moment they took those braids out and she just looked at Meryl Streep, I was like, now I get the braids.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Meryl Streep: A running bit, checking whether Meryl Streep ever holds a gun in her filmography, and recasting her in Wanted and Salt.
    “Meryl Streep is hard to talk about. It's kind of like talking about Coca-Cola on a warm summer day.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)