Meryl Streep displays her brilliant comedic side in this period film set in 1944 based on a true story about an aging NY socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. “And we were also around the corner from a great fish and chip shop so we’d do that once a week – but only once a week, because you’d just die if you did it every night!”
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Speaking to the new issue of HELLO! magazine, she revealed: “I do try to stay healthy. That would be truly revolutionary!”
Over the last few years, Streep has been the go-to actress when it comes to stage-to-screen adaptations, taking on Donna in Mamma Mia!
The star of Florence Foster Jenkins recounted how both a gay man and a trans person influenced her at a very early age, informing her how the arts can be a safe haven for LGBT people.
“Who really did that then?”
Stephen Frears, director of The Queen and Philomena spins an unforgettable heartwarming and amusing story that will bring audiences to tears in the inspiring true story of the eponymous NY heiress who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. It hovers around B-/B+. So I don’t know.
The out-of-tune performance was all the more surprising to the extras because Meryl is known for her musical talents after previously showing off her vocals in films like A Prairie Home Companion, Mamma Mia, Into the Woods, and Ricki and the Flash. And it’s not just how bad it is-it’s how aspirant, how hopeful it is. Their house, she said, was both “magical” and “an entry into exotica”.
She explained: “I have the same skin as my mother – she had attractive skin”.
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The film, from Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, hits theatres August 12.
