Watch: Meryl Streep Talks ‘The Iron Lady’ and Finding a Characters Voice

In her latest role, Meryl Streep stars as Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom in The Iron Lady and if you’ve watched the trailer, you’ll see that she once again disappears into her part.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Streep explained that some of the roles she takes on, she can just roll out of bed and do, but the role of Thatcher was more of a challenge.

“There are so many secrets in many lives that we’ve already decided we know everything about; you don’t know everything, and why we’re alive is to learn more,” she said about the part. “I really like to portray prickly people, or people that are just, sort of, difficult women, on a certain level,” she said.

Over the years, Streep has taken on many different personalities, as well as voices. In Julie & Julia her persona was all giggles and food while in The Devil Wears Prada she was sharp, cold, and created tension that not even the sharpest of knives could slice.  Read more

UK Trailer: ‘The Iron Lady’ starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent

The Iron Lady: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century’s most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant

Here is the teaser trailer from July

 In Theaters: December 16th, 2011

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Trailer: Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”

The Iron Lady: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century’s most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant

In Theaters: December 16th,  2011

Is it me or does this trailer feel kinda…creepy?

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Screenplay: ‘It’s Complicated’

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Stanley Tucci on ‘The Lovely Bones’ and working Meryl Streep

From wsj.com:

The Wall Street Journal: How did you decide to take on this part of a rapist and murderer?

Mr. Tucci: I really trusted Peter [Jackson] and his wife, Fran. In the original draft of the script that I read, that scene was more graphic. In the film, everything is left to your imagination, which is how it should be— it makes everything so much more scary and more interesting. Also, much of the movie was shooting in Pennsylvania, so I knew I could take a train and commute home to see my family [in upstate New York]. I also brought my family when we shot in New Zealand. I don’t think I could have done the part if I had been by myself.

Even though Saoirse Ronan [who plays the young girl] is a professional actor, did you have to gauge how much you could push her emotionally?

Yes, because it’s scary material and she’s a kid. As a parent, after every take, I’d ask her if she was OK, and she would do the same thing to me. I begged Pete to shoot in one day, but we ended up needing a day and a half. And it was at the end of the shoot, so I had to wait five months to shoot it. Once it was done, I felt so free. I like to joke a lot, and I think it’s vital for something like this.

You shot “Julie & Julia” immediately after this film, which must have been a relief.

That film was the antidote to this one, and was exactly what I needed to do. I stayed at home, worked with Meryl, laughed a ton and made martinis every night. We’re like two children together and laugh all the time, which is why we get along so well. Plus, she’s completely fearless as an actress.

In the spring, you’ll be making your debut as a theater director on “Lend Me a Tenor.” How did the project come about?

I’ve done plays all my life and the Araca Group, the guys who did “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” [with Mr. Tucci in 2002], have been after me to do another, but I couldn’t. I have three little kids and that play almost killed me. I hate the schedule and I don’t believe in eight shows a week. But directing is different. And this play is hilarious. All of the cheap gags that you find in farces are in this one farce. I would go crazy just being an actor. That’s why I started writing and directing. I don’t like being at the mercy of people I don’t like or trust.

Jason Schwartzman on The Fantastic Mr. Fox: “Its the best movie I’ve ever been a part of”

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Jason Schwartzman has been on a role recently with great reviews in some great projects – Funny People, Bored To Death and now, Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

In this exclusive interview, he talks about playing a 12 year old fox, working with Bill Murray, George Clooney and Meryl Streep and his favorite scene in the film (which totally make me want to see it even more).

If you get a chance, you should listen to the audio interview. There is so much more he said that I haven’t included in the transcript.  Just for the way he talks and goes off the cuff is worth the listen.

Jason Schwartzman: This is really exciting.  This is really exciting for me.  You know, in this industry, you get to experience so many amazing things that you would never get to do otherwise.  Like just 20 minutes ago I was sitting in a chair in another room with an earwig in my ear, and I was staring into a camera, and they were patching me in live to all these different morning talk shows all around America.  And it was such a weird thing, because I would literally be sitting there and then someone would come through my ear saying, “Hello Jason!  This is Jen and Danny from Detroit!” or something.  I can’t see them, but they can see me, and I’m literally live on television in Detroit.  It’s such an amazing, such a bizarre thing.  But it’s so cool because it’s so unusual, you know?

Q: Can you relate to your character, Ash, from the film and if so, how?
JS: Absolutely.  When I read the script, I completely related to this character.  I mean, I literally like down to almost every aspect of it.  I’m the son of George Clooney and Meryl Streep, of course in the movie. I’m an adolescent fox, about 12-13 years old, fox years.  And I’m little, I haven’t hit my growth spurt yet, and I don’t have many friends.  I get picked on a little bit, quite a bit actually.  And I like a girl who doesn’t really like me back and likes my cousin actually who is living with us.

I mean I felt like when I was 12-13 years old, it’s an amazing time and it’s also you know, there’s lots of new things happening in one’s life.  In my case, I don’t know about everyone, I was entering a new school, meeting new friends, and I hadn’t hit my growth spurt until later.  I felt little.  I wished I was a better athlete.  And I, of course, liked lots of people and wanted to be friends with people that didn’t all the time want to be friends back with me.  And it was very weird.  I, myself, I did feel like it was very odd and such a bizarre time.  And what’s so nice, is that in this movie my character who is little and he’s embarrassed about being little…  in the end of this movie it’s actually his size that helps save his cousin’s life.  And what he realizes is that the things that make him different are not things that he should be embarrassed about.  They’re actually things that make him kind of incredible, and I think that’s really the positive message of the movie and one that I would have loved to have seen when I was a kid, which is basically it’s okay to be yourself and don’t worry if you feel different.  Being different is what’s cool and what’s great.

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Trailer: "Julie and Julia"

Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Amy Adams talks about her second Oscar nomination and working with Meryl Streep

The renaissance of Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep has been on a roll. First she had ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘ and ‘Mammi Mia‘. Now, with her upcoming film, Doubt, she is back on top and already being touted for an Oscar nomination.

Here she talks life, Doubt and oh yeah, acting.

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The secret SAG meeting that didn't happen?

Nikki Finke rocks. If you don’t read her site you are missing out.

That being said, there is a story going around about a “secret” SAG meeting last month. This supposed meeting in the back room of an Italian restaurant had high-powered film stars (Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Nick Nolte, Annette Bening) being asked by SAG higher-ups whether we should strike or not. The vote came in for a strike to happen.

Problem is: The scene never happened.

Read about here at DHD