{"id":643199,"date":"2026-05-01T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:44:08","slug":"meryl-streep-reveals-she-had-a-beef-with-death-becomes-her-co-star-goldie-hawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643199\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep reveals she &#8216;had a beef&#8217; with &#8216;Death Becomes Her&#8217; co-star Goldie Hawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Streep \u201chad a beef\u201d with her \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d co-star Goldie Hawn while filming the 1992 movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jRkMv6UAG6g?si=3hz7wQk0vfmB2Leh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Speaking to Vanity Fair <\/a>on Thursday, the actress looked back at some of her most iconic roles \u2014 including the dark comedy \u2014 before recalling her on-set issue with Hawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoldie, she was always late to set,\u201d Streep remembered. \u201cAnd I\u2019m always on time, you know, and annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Kevin Mazur<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut she was so adorable,\u201d Streep added. \u201cShe had a red convertible, I remember, and she\u2019d drive herself to set. So that was probably the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d drive herself to set,\u201d she continued. \u201cShe had her hair all \u2026 \u2018Oh gosh, sorry!\u2019 And everybody thought, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s so cute.\u2019 Yeah. So I had a beef with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d star called their time together on set \u201csilly and fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just laughed,\u201d Streep told the outlet. \u201cWe just had a lot of fun. And she\u2019s the best laugher in America, really. She laughs like, \u2018Ahahaha!\u2019 And then they have to stop shooting. But that part was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also clarified there is no actual beef between them, gushing that Hawn is \u201cone of her buddies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, we\u2019ve had some laughs about that movie because people love it. I thought it was like a documentary on Beverly Hills,\u201d Streep said.<\/p>\n<p> WireImage<\/p>\n<p> Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d follows a violent feud between actress Madeline (Streep) and her former friend Helen (Hawn) as they fight over a plastic surgeon (Bruce Willis). <\/p>\n<p>Talking about their other co-star, Streep gushed, \u201cOh, Bruce was divine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess he was a bad boy on certain sets, and came with a little reputation for being difficult, but we had so much fun with him,\u201d she said of Willis, who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/02\/16\/bruce-willis-condition-worsens-family-reveals-new-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffers from frontotemporal dementia<\/a>. \u201cHe was such a gent, and so game, and willing to be ridiculous. I just thought he was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p> demimoore\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its release, \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d was a box-office success, opening at No. 1 and earning over $12 million that weekend alone.<\/p>\n<p>The movie went on to earn over $58.4\u00a0million domestically and $90.6\u00a0million internationally. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the cult classic became a Broadway musical comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep \u201chad a beef\u201d with her \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d co-star Goldie Hawn while filming the 1992 movie.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,16326,447,138913,44621,11269,1581,134,16121,14158,344],"class_list":["post-643199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruce-willis","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-beefs","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-friendships","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-goldie-hawn","tag-meryl-streep","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}