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...kidding. But Streep was not when, later in the day, she declared this shoot to be "one of my favorite things I've ever done in my life," thus confounding widespread skepticism over how the cowboy and the lady-representing to the ever gossiping, always clueless outside world what seemed to be utterly antithetical styles and methods of work-would get along. Their contentment with each other and their project was by this time near to purring...
...main reason things worked out so nicely was Streep's discovery that he was her kind of director and Eastwood's that she was his kind of actress. Her criterion, she said, was someone who "doesn't say anything to me ... leaves me alone." Well, not entirely alone; what she needs is "somebody who inspires your confidence, who sets up a safe world for you [where you can] make your mistakes and go as wild and as far out as you want...
...actor not only directing himself but also obliged to keep a helpful eye on whomever else he was working with in a scene, he had a rather daunting job. But Streep thought he carried it off gracefully. She had twice before worked with actor-directors and always, disconcertingly, "felt watched in the scenes I was doing with them." That didn't happen here. It was, she said, like doing a two-handed theater piece, with both actors "free to explore how it evolves, almost as if we were making it up as we went along...
...Streep-which even she admitted may sound out of character or at least out of image. "You know, people have called me a technical actor," she said. "But I have always loved that first encounter. I almost always like the first reading better than anything we ever do subsequently. I come ready, and I don't want to screw around and waste the first 10 takes on adjusting lighting and everybody else getting comfortable." But this is something more than a personal preference. She likes the reality of a movie scene to "feel captured, as opposed...
...directors -- where the book ogles, the film discreetly observes -- and, here, the courtliest of stars. The movie has a scene in which Francesca watches Robert wash himself. But Clint would never let the camera play over his body. Nor, as director, would he be anything but protective of Streep's corporal mortality. The two stars are past miming youth's sleek exertions. Why do it now? They didn't do it then...