{"id":637397,"date":"2026-04-29T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:54:08","slug":"meryl-streep-knows-youll-damn-well-pay-extra-for-meryl-streep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637397\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep knows you’ll damn well pay extra for Meryl Streep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meryl Streep has a pretty established reputation in the world of pop culture\u2014not just in terms of her considerable talents as a performer, but also a sort of whimsical classiness that she seems to effortlessly project. Streep will pivot between silly musicals<\/a> and serious dramas<\/a>, screwball comedies<\/a> and complicated, messy people<\/a>, all apparently at her own \u201cIf it\u2019s interesting, do it\u201d whims. But make no mistake, readers: Meryl Streep will\u00a0fuck you, if she knows your movie isn\u2019t going to happen without Meryl Goddamn Streep.<\/p>\n

This is (via Variety<\/a>) according to\u00a0an anecdote Streep told on Today, amidst her ongoing promotional duties for The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>. Specifically, the three-time Oscar winner was talking about the days when she was approached about the first\u00a0Devil Wears Prada<\/a>, which came out in 2006. When presented with the movie\u2019s script, Streep instantly recognized two things about it: That it would make a lot of money for its producers, and that it was a movie you could only really make with Meryl Streep in its iconic semi-antagonistic role. \u201cI was sure of it,\u201d Streep said of the movie\u2019s potential. \u201cI was sure it would be a hit. And they needed me, I felt.\u201d So Streep decided to turn the screws a bit: She turned the film down, then doubled her asking price. Meryl Streep: She\u2019ll shiv ya if she can!<\/p>\n

Streep frames this bit of revelatory hardball as a turning point for her, which is wild in so far as it was happening circa 2005, when she was more than 30 years into being \u201cMeryl Streep, planet\u2019s most well-regarded actress.\u201d Noting that she was 56 at the time, Streep said of the negotiating move, \u201cIt took me this long to understand that I could do that!\u201d She also made it clear that she did want the part of Anna Wintour stand-in Miranda Priestly, but maybe not as much as producers at 20th Century Fox wanted her: \u201cAnd I wanted it, but if they didn\u2019t want to do that, I was okay. Because I\u2019m old\u2014I\u2019m 56, I was ready to retire.\u201d (Streep is now 76, and has made more than 30 movies and TV shows since she starred in the previous\u00a0Prada movie, so it\u2019s hard to gauge how sincere that \u201cHey, I\u2019ll just retire\u201d stance is, but, hey: Whatever gets that paper, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep has a pretty established reputation in the world of pop culture\u2014not just in terms of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-637397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}