For many moviegoers and moviegoers, Meryl Streep is the best actress in history. The 3-time Academy Award winner and 21-time Oscar nominee causes a sensation with each new performance and character she brings to life. His way of acting is conditioned, in part by the method . The psychological construction of the school of interpretation inherited from Konstantín Stanislavski. Many other great actors such as Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe or James Dean make supporters of this style of interpretation. However, while the Russian theater director’s methodology has given Streep multiple joys in the form of awards, he has not acted that way since his character as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada .
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Meryl Streep said that playing the evil director of the fashion magazine was horrible. The actress took the performance to the extreme to the point of withdrawing from any team activity when the cameras were not recording. “I could hear everyone rocking and laughing. I was so depressed! But hey, I said to myself: It’s the price you pay for being the boss. That is the last time I tried anything with the Method, ” stated Streep.
On the other hand, Anne Hathaway , who played the assistant protagonist of the character of Streep, has always said that it never made her feel “intimidated” despite the fact that The Method is a somewhat aggressive way in certain aspects outside the filming. A clear example that the acting system is not to everyone’s liking are the statements recently made by actor Martin Freeman, about cases like Jim Carrey and Man on the moon . At least Meryl Streep can stay calm about Hathaway’s case, because she always felt cared for: “I knew that whatever I was doing to create that fear, I appreciated it because I also knew that she was taking care of me.”
Recalling a specific case, Hathaway highlighted a scene in which Miranda Prestly’s character told her “you are as disappointing as the rest of the silly girls .” It was the first time the actress had worked with a figure as relevant to the scene as Streep, so Hathaway remembers that when the camera looked at her, the pressure really hit her. “I remember having the experience of seeing her observe me and (Streep) altered her performance very slightly , making it a little different and she brought out more of me, getting me to break any barrier I had had,” said Priestly’s assistant in The Devil Wears Prada .
