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...STAR, BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS As it turns out, Streep is a cross between den mother and class cutup. On the set of Prada, director David Frankel was talking with Stanley Tucci about a scene. "I said, 'It's like you've been nominated for an Oscar, and they open the envelope and you don't win, and the camera's right in your face,'" recalls Frankel. "And he said, 'I can do that.' And Meryl said, 'I can do that! I've done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most...
...JUST NOT THAT BEAUTIFUL When Mary Louise Streep hit seventh grade, she refused to wear the glasses she had needed since age 4 because, she says, "I wanted to be pretty." She succeeded--she was chosen to be homecoming queen. But being unattractive is an accusation Streep has fought all her career, even in The Deer Hunter days, when she was a certifiable knockout. Frankel thinks one of the reasons Streep made a big popcorny movie like Prada is that with three daughters, she's critically aware of the well-patrolled borders of traditional beauty and the Minutemen-like function...
Perhaps a woman with cheekbones like ice cliffs gets called plain because of her willingness--almost insistence--on transforming for each role. (On receiving one of her countless awards, Streep thanked longtime makeup artist Roy Helland for continuing "to do his best to destroy my natural good looks.") Though Streep's not the type to meekly offer herself up to the makeup trailer. "I thought, We'll sit down and we'll talk, and Meryl will try on a few things and we'll choose one," says Frankel of Streep's look in Prada. "No. Meryl made the decision...
...DIFFICULT "I know that when I start a new job, that this is the thing that precedes me," Streep says with a sigh. "That I'm rigorous in doing my homework and hideously overprepared, and ..." She shrugs. "And that's fine. Better to come off as smarter and more disciplined than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult...
...DOES IS ACCENTS Being able to do accents, Streep maintains, is like being able to sing. You can do it or you can't. Still, not everybody who can do accents can do everything else she can. Brave is the person who tries to analyze what makes Streep's performances so remarkable. But Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and is translating Mother Courage, gives it a whirl. "She does that weird thing that really great actors can do that really good actors can't. It's the ability to do two, three or four things at once...