The incredibly talentedMeryl Streepis the first actress that pops to mind when most think of Hollywood’s living legends.
After all,Streep’s acting resumeis second to none.
She also has hopes, dreams, and aspirations, even though she’s already accomplished so much.
So what is there to know about the actress that’s flown a bit under the radar?
And what is she really like in person?
Read on to discover the untold truth of Meryl Streep.
It’s not just Academy Award nominations that Streep has in abundance.
Only legendary actorKatharine Hepburnhas won more, as she was awarded four Oscars in her lifetime.
But who knows what the future may hold!
Rather, she took singing lessons in the hopes that one day she could be an opera singer.
I saw the greats Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Georgia Brown."
That would certainly have an impact!
When Streep got older, she continued to pursue music, but that eventually changed.
“I never sang again for years and years.”
Fortunately, she did get back to it, eventually.
Here We Go Again.
Their marriage truly is #RelationshipGoals.
But before Streep was happily married to Gummer, she had another high-profile romance that ended in tragedy.
It didn’t take long for the pair tofall in love, equally dazzled by one another.
“It’s a part of my body,” she confessed in an interview withNPR.
“It was very hard.
And while all of them are grown up now, Streep worked consistently throughout their upbringing.
So how did she and Don Gummer manage to raise four healthy and successful children?
“Teamwork is everything,” Streep revealed in an interview withLufthansa Magazine.
“My husband Don Gummer was and still is very involved.
He is a little more relaxed when it comes to raising kids.
I’m more of a tiger mom.”
What exactly does Streep mean when she said she was a tiger mom?
“Today, my son is 37 and he is a musician.
Tiger-mom Meryl was right!”
A point for mom!
That’s something that has pros and cons for Streep, as she knows the business well.
“But I am also frightened for them, too.
However, Streep knows she has to trust that her daughters will land on their feet.
“So I read all these things about global warming, thermal inversions you know, no nonsense.”
She was definitely ahead of the curve!
Streep knew she had to act to pass her activism onto the next generation sincerely.
Way to set an example, Meryl!
“I wasn’t aware of designing myself in high school,” she recalled in an interview withNPR.
What’s our role in the world?
What is our capacity?
What is holding us back?'”
“I felt free,” she continued.
It was an emergence.”
“It’s not just women,” she explained in an interview withGood Housekeeping.
“You’d be amazed at how many men in this industry have gone down that road.
I just don’t get it.
You have to embrace getting older.
That’s a really healthy perspective.
Additionally, Streep has found an advantage to aging naturally and embracing the inevitable changes that come with that.
I have a job like that,'” she revealed in an interview withNPR.
But that literally wasn’t the case, as it really did take that long to happen.
“That’s the first time anyone has ever said that they felt that way.”
“She loved being alive and that’s inspirational in itself.”
“And you see it in the movie.
It was overstepping.”
Fortunately, Streep is optimistic that behavior like that is on the way out the door.
“I think those things are being corrected in this moment.
And they’re not politically corrected; they’re fixed,” she continued.
“They will be fixed, because people won’t accept it anymore.
So that’s a good thing.”
She also believes that the entirety of the#MeToo movementis here to stay, and very much needed.
“I don’t think we will go backwards on this one.”
Fingers crossed, Meryl!
“I am extremely optimistic and usually, but notalways, right.”
She joined the show in the role of Mary Louise Wright, mother-in-law toNicole Kidman’s character, Celeste.
“[My agent] said, ‘Don’t you want to read it [the script]?’
I said no,” she revealed in a panel organized byVanity Fair.
“It was the greatest thing on television, it really was.
There isn’t a woman in this room who wouldn’t sign up.”
That’s a high compliment coming from a true Hollywood rockstar.
“There are a million stories in history that we don’t know about,” she continued.
And Streep wants to change that.
What a noble cause!
