That often meant skipping concealer and “letting the powder shadow fall beneath the eyes into the creases, never doing the liner right, and putting the eyebrow pencil on half the time good, half the time not good”, she says. There are a few confrontations between the two, and that was the most hard for Mamie Gummer. “I actually don’t think she needed to play the guitar as well as she did because the character is so powerful”. “It was amusing because I tear into her and when we called cut there was this big grin on her face”. Also, beyond the mesmerizing physical resemblance between the real-life mother and daughter pairing, Gummer and Streep both disappear into their respective roles. Perhaps that’s what makes it harder for Mamie.
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The film soundtrack, which will also be released on Friday, includes covers of Tom Petty’s “American Girl”, Bruce Springsteen’s “My Love Will Not Let You Down”, U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, and other rock and pop classics. “But she really enjoyed railing at me”, Meryl shared with mock surprise. “It’s just acting”.
The “Ricki and the Flash” star revealed she didn’t know how to play guitar prior to filming the Jonathan Demme-directed movie about a struggling musician reconnecting with her estranged family, so Young stepped in to help out.
In May, the Inquisitr reported that Ricki and the Flash could be another Oscar nod for Streep. Here she is talking about working with her mother.
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Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield and Meryl Streep attend the New York premier of “Ricki And The Flash” at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on August 3, 2015 in New York City.
