Auditioning Actors Who Are Not Meryl Streep To Play Meryl Streep In The Biopic About Meryl Streep
My tabby cat Meowranda Priestley would make a more convincing Meryl.
By Mary Nepi and Christopher Shelley
Meryl would have shown us at least five-and-a-half emotions at war with each other; you’re only giving me two.
Could you try that again, this time like you grew up in New Jersey and have an MFA from Yale?
Since Meryl can memorize lines after looking at them once, here are ten additional pages of sides. You have thirty seconds.
You know that quality Meryl has of being likable yet mysterious yet mischievous yet charming yet complicated yet light yet serious yet funny yet omniscient? Show me that.
My tabby cat Meowranda Priestley would make a more convincing Meryl than you.
Hey Ginny? You can’t keep letting Laura Linney in here.
In this scene, Meryl has a nightmare that she’s teaching acting at the Community College of Vermont in Brattleboro. We need to see real terror here.
Meryl Streep doesn’t just file her nails, she files her nails in a way that reveals that she once acted in five plays over six weeks at the Eugene O’Neil Theater…
