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Q: Whenever you ask a star about the one actress they look up to, it seems they all say ‘Meryl Streep.’ Who does Streep look up to?
A: In person, Meryl is funnier than you’d expect her to be and very generous in praising other actors. I was tickled to see her carrying a reporter’s notebook in her upcoming movie with Tom Cruise, Lions for Lambs. I think of the times I’ve talked to her with one of those skinny notepads in my hand. Meryl says that getting ready to play a top political journalist was a pleasure for her since (like me) she’s a total “news junkie.” Which brings me to your answer. “Christiane Amanpour is my hero,” Meryl says. “I really admire people who get out on the front lines and bring us back the story—who are not pushed by emotion to one side or the other. But what such a woman doesn’t want to tell you is the harder thing to find out—and that’s what makes her a very intriguing kind of character to play.” It’s fun to see her as Janine and Tom Cruise as a smooth senator verbally duel in their scenes. Lions for Lambs is all fiction but I had to wince at the reality of watching a journalist and a politician, each with their own agenda, elegantly battle it out about the current war. Meryl was taken with Tom—how can you help it? As for the senator he portrays, “He reminded me of an amalgam of Rick Santorum and John Edwards,” Meryl smiles, with an expression as enigmatic as the reporter she plays.
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