Meryl Streep Graces Vogue America January

I’m surprised to fine out Meryl Streep’s words telling she believed her career was over 20 years ago. No way! The Hollywood star, who is 62 years old (!) now tells Vogue magazine she was offered three different roles to play a witch after turning 40. She confessed that she believed it meant women in her age group were ‘grotesque on some level’, and told her husband that it was over. Meryl graces the January 2012 cover of American Vogue magazine for the first time and jokes in the magazine she’s the oldest person to do so. She tells much about her latest work – starring in Iron Lady where she has a title role – the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She will portray Thatcher from age 49 to 85.

Meryl said about playing Margaret Thatcher:

With any character I play, where she is me is where I meet her. It’s very easy to set people at arm’s length and judge them. Yes, you can judge the policies and the actions and the shortcomings – but to live inside that body is another thing entirely. And it’s humbling on a certain level and infuriating, just like it is to live in your own body. Because you recognize your own failings, and I have no doubt that she recognized hers.”

On the movie:

Because the material embedded in it is a lot of what I’ve been thinking about. The themes in the film, which I don’t feel like underlining, have interested me for a while. And you never see these subjects covered in films normally, and so that was very thrilling.”

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