Meryl Streep Interview - Sophie's Choice (1983)

Interview with Meryl Streep about Sophie's Choice. Enjoy!

[@N00PURA]

Meryl Streep never fails to inspire me. She's amazing. I think she could do a great portrayal of princess Diana. She has those beautiful gestures that princess Diana had...

[@nspector]

+N00PURA Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Very different people, really, but strangely a similarity in looks, or maybe more they way they hold themselves -- the shy but not really shy down/up look -- and the gestures, as you say.

[@STLFURNITURE]

I feel the same!

[@stevenxia2944]

Princess Do and Streep both have starsign as Cancer

[@ellasilveira2552]

Yes!!!

[@Professional_Victim_H8er]

She’s so quiet and reserved here. She really broke out of her shell and has let her personality shine over the past couple of decades. She is a legend. I will never grow tired of watching her perform...or speak...or breathe.

[@sharonjensen3016]

With age comes confidence.

[@thejjjs7786]

Right? I could listen to her read the phone book.

[@henning439]

She is probably not just one of the best actresses of all times, but the BEST among both men and women who ever acted.

[@grapiken7766]

She deserved the Oscar completely. She's articulate and thoughtful Learning Polish! My God! ... The work she put into this part is phenomenal.

[@michaelterry1000]

I always found it interesting that people comment on her learning Polish when she actually spoke a lot more German in Sophie's Choice than Polish. Is it because people regard Polish as a more difficult language?

[@princessjoots]

Her eyes are shinning so much. What a natural beauty, and still is after all these years.

[@9108nedrfr]

She speaks so soft and everything she says makes sense. Love her.

[@Channel-ew9dr]

A legend. Thank you, Mrs. Streep, for your magnificent work.

[@tonitalas1757]

So poised and articulate 37 years ago! The greatest body of work by an actress ever, the greatest actress of our time!

[@Incognitofrito1]

Meryl Streep is one of the best actresses EVER. She's also so BEAUTIFUL. My favorite Meryl Streep films are Sophie's Choice & Silkwood. ❤

[@Zva26]

The great work she's done SINCE this interview! Easily the most gifted actress in the history of American film. Her range is so wide, so varied, and so multi-colored that it's impossible to think of any other actress who's played such a range of roles. She's as great in comedy as she is in drama. She can sing, she can dance, she's ANYTHING and EVERYTHING!

[@thejjjs7786]

It’s almost impossible to believe one human being can be this talented. Does she do anything bad?

[@monicaa.9197]

She has this soft, eloquent beauty that remains me of princess Diana herself. Pleasing to look at and to listen.

[@princessjoots]

YES I thought Diana instantly. The clothes, the hair, the humble and shy aura and yet at the same time, regal. Sinning doe eyes. I don't know Nancy Regan all too well (I'm british and quite uneducated) but I'm sure you're right about that too!

[@82elfje]

Her performance is one of the best performances ever in a movie.

[@Plathianloner]

She reminds me of princess Dianna here

[@bingovegas4867]

Oh how amazing...if she only knew what was to come in the next 40 years. How LUCKY are we, her fans.

[@ynahp573]

been on Meryl marathon for 3 days now lol not doin anythin but obsessing abt her..if u can see Meryl hasnt really changed at all..the way she talks, speaks, tone of voice, mannerisms etc

[@tonnyrodrigueznunez]

She is one of the best actresses the cinema has ever had!!!!!!!!!!!! she's one in a million

[@josephcarlbreil5380]

World's best actor hands-down. Streep never fails to amaze with her versatility.

[@tfaddict8254]

Can you cry on cue? Ok a very dumb question but, Meryl gave an excellent answer

[@lucasborrione4441]

Definition of self confidence and style. If you can’t cry in the scene, there is something wrong with the scene. Wow

[@lorenzmartincruz]

At first I thought Reagan's wife was hosting lol!

[@Ktwood1]

Lorenz Martin Cruz uncanny from the back , pretty sure she is at least republican.

[@katc5051]

Me too!

[@suzanneforgione1018]

Same lol

[@thewomaninthemoon]

Wow this interview is so rare,I've never seen it.Look at Meryl's amazing skin,my goodness she looks so beautiful.Thank you so much for uploading this,we Streepers are very grateful to you.

[@albertomn1]

She is the most beautiful acctractive and passionate actress in the world in the life and for all the theatre and movies too .,She is the best!

[@aprildugger3012]

One of the greatest movies of all time.

[@calvinliang1866]

A beautiful, talented lady

[@jamisonholly9482]

Really good in Sophie's Choice. Holy shit! Could be one of the best actresses/actors ever. Every moment she was on the screen i could not look away. Great movie. And I'm not one to admit to liking this trust me

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

she is the best..ever

[@thejjjs7786]

EVER.

[@sarahcain8382]

Meryl Streep is the best and most beautiful in the world

[@skylar1477]

and then she won the oscar!!! wootwoot!!!

[@Nonie46]

That was the only movie, which made me sleepless for three nights thinking why can man be so cruel and make another one feel so helpless and alone!

[@deerheart87]

Mariano Alojado the cruelty must have given them such power or self importance , it's very difficult to understand , I think there must have been an insane high connected to bring do evil and unkind

[@sharonjensen3016]

I never saw "Sophie's Choice" on the big screen, but I have heard that people who did were really affected by it, red-eyed and weepy at the conclusion.

[@tacom1]

The presenter was right, that was, is and will be THE performance by an actress. Every wannabe actress will study this for their own good. Meryl is phenomenal .

[@IsThisLife09]

Aww, she was so bashful back then!

[@harrysliame6496]

she's like Diana

[@shanon5803]

She's nothing like Princess Diana. Princess Diana was a humble, sensitive woman who was stuck in a very horrific situation. Meryl Streep is an actress. She's playing a script, just like Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey.

[@Kitjister]

Wow thanx! This is old!

[@kriziatesta4863]

Amazing ❤

[@pam0626]

She and Princess Diana have many similarities.

[@firststreeper]

She is so right about the fact that they write about moovies and there is so much talk about them before they even come out that in the end there is just a feeling of tiredness in me...do I really wanna watch this? :(

[@rottentwapple]

I dunno. But i do think Meryl Streep resembles Princess Diana in this interview from this angle. Will it be late for her to play Diana now since she's mastered the British accent now.

[@asf2341]

Sounds more like a courtroom scene than an interview... Meryl; you're my acting inspiration, and a human one swell!

[@w.k.7277]

Wow, she's so much like Lady Diana here

[@BecomingAdrian]

Bahaha, I love the awkward ending!

[@CC-mr5xq]

Did she just ask if Meryl Streep has menthol blown in her eyes to cry? Did she seriously just ask that?!

[@mao6027]

She’s too beautiful✨✨💓💓

[@tommylellan9196]

@skylar1477 i saw this film for the first time last night (and then she won the oscar!) one of the best movies ever, and it is the all time great performance by an actor in a film. :)

[@carljcreighton]

young irritable pregnant Meryl Streep is my spirit animal

[@janejohnstone5795]

Her shyness...and modesty...is appealing..as lot of Americans are loud and brash..not sensitive like her..

[@FlaminiaJulia]

how calm she spoke then and how "open" she is now, if you remember her oscar thank...talk^^?

[@savitribirju8828]

She is so beautiful

[@EvenEvenOdd]

This is one of the worst set of questions an interviewer has ever conceived.

[@jbauer72]

I agree. Tedious.

[@mattd501]

EvenEvenOdd I think only one of the questions was silly, the rest seemed pretty good.

[@carljcreighton]

I thought she was great

[@marshacreary2442]

2:53-3:29 Studying Polish 3 hours a day

[@vidaljraguilera2407]

She is such a Godess. So beautiful, so talented, so classy

[@sarahpamula778]

What a great designer of a window.

[@jukodebu]

at first I thought that was nancy reagan

[@jjolifine]

Can you cry on cue? [I'm going to explain something that you don't understand.] But can you cry on cue?! [I might start crying now, this interview is a nightmare!] No wonder she so rarely does interviews! This one might have been the one to traumatize her for life! Still seeing Princess Di and Nancy Reagan (see below). In a number of shots Streep even has the doe caught in the headlights look that, sadly, Diana always had in interviews. Weird!

[@vidyasonavane9602]

Maryl looks like Madhuri Dikshit from side profile. Another beautiful and talented, Indian actress!

[@MelodicSymphonywithBeas]

Absolutely right 👍🏻

[@jjolifine]

Nancy Reagan interviewing Princess Di. If you cut out the voices and just look at the clothes, hair, mannerisms, and utter uncomfortableness of this interview, that's what it looks like! Does anyone else think so?

[@liriacarmen]

@LovingGod2 you are so right about it, It almost offends such a bic artist, although Meryl, with her grace deals with it ...

[@oceansdream84]

Like channel 62 and 63 and hten changed to channel 65 why the spanish channel? Meaning for ppl to travel here to nyc or america?

[@writtenIntheskys]

Wow

[@Dadacomero]

She's WAAAAY better than diana definitely

[@arnoldamaral7406]

It was an absolute tour De force 😢

[@carlosacolonsegarra9315]

I don't think this is a dull o dumb interview from the reporters side, they ask those questions in order to inform, to transform and to bring the truth to the people. I think the lady did her job well and did her research , because the director Alan Pakula (rip) had other European actress in mind and Meryl fought with claws and teeth to get the part.To cry on cue its not easy, if you are not an actor and don't know , theres a technique called emotional memory in which you have to bring something sad or harrowing from life from your past at the moment to mind to cause pain or anguish or a link in the mind to trigger the emotion in a specific moment to make you cry, its not easy, that's why she said i cant cry unless im moved by some reason, its amnetal exercise which requires discipline, Theres an interview with Sally Field in the program Inside the Actors Studio with James lipton, in which a students speaks during the Sally interview and he says that he works very hard in mental terms to make himself sad during those emotional exercises in class, and Sally tells him that must be hard to be sad all the time to be able to achieve that. Now returning to Meryl interview, its a Sunday morning maybe, she rather be in bed, she is also pregnant so to make herself available and willing to talk about her performance is commandable, otherwise this interview could have been history.

[@marshacreary9771]

Mike Nichols and Silkwood?

[@marshacreary9771]

Peter?

[@Dadacomero]

0 dislikes enough said

[@marshacreary9771]

Kevin?

[@marshacreary9771]

Allen?

[@angelalfee]

some questions are kinda...funny..."how u felf if u didnt get the part?" seriously? try asking that question the the actress that didnt get the part of Scarlett O Hara in Gone With The Wind...cant remember her name, they called her for castings for like 20 times, but at the end, Vivien Leigh came and simply charmed everyone in a day or two...the girl who didnt get that part in GWTW maybe felt like...i dunno...horrid...

[@outinsider]

I miss the days when Meryl gave interviews like this where it wasn't contrived and as honest as this interview was. I miss the commitment she describes that nowadays seems is a whim because clout has blinded her ability to commit to the process like she used to. It is a shame that Sophie's Choice was the last Oscar she justly deserved. In the meantime every fanatic seems to pray " Meryl, Meryl full of Grace. The Lord is With Thee. Blessed art thou among Women and Blessed is the Fruit of Your Womb Talent. Holy Meryl, Mother of Film, Pray For Us."

[@christianvallejo3725]

Who is the interviewer?

[@marshacreary9771]

She was pregnant when she did this movie?

[@thejjjs7786]

No

[@michaelakel]

Meryl is so wonderful and amazing in this film. But the worst questions (so stupid) from an interviewer!

[@starvla246]

I've seen this woman interview Carrie Fisher before as well and it was just as awful. 🙊 Meryl is certainly a trooper.

[@thejjjs7786]

God isn’t she awful? Meryl handled herself beautifully.

[@donnasheppard7371]

The most fun she ever had ? ????

[@oceansdream84]

everyone had fights about the bermuda triangle?

[@thejjjs7786]

Ughh again with your weirdo comments.

[@Kastle9498]

No disrespect but Meryl looks like princess Diana right there

[@ParaicD]

Was thinking the exact same thing- Princess Diana! 😂

[@tiatokkesdal1745]

Holy shit I thought this was princess Diana

[@oceansdream84]

you know when you were young one couldn't wait to be aq grown up and watch dirty programs on cable tv.

[@TresLanes]

If I were an actor in Hollywood I would let it be known that I would only accept roles in movies that had Meryl in them. Maybe then I would get over my unhealthy adoration for this lady. She steals my heart every single time.

[@CIBOYPRODUCT]

REMOLINO

[@jawhitney25]

OMG this interviewer is TERRRRRIBLE. I've never heard such stupid, pointless questions. Ack! poor Meryl--but as usual she is full of grace.

[@marita7424]

Silly questions.

[@bigboy6191]

Weird interview

[@iknowwhatimtalkingabout]

What stupid questions!!!

[@MuleKickMo]

The interviewer is awful....and Meryl is wonderful.

[@oceansdream84]

I always feel queasy about pregancy wihtout marriage.

[@thejjjs7786]

Dude your comments are really weird.

[@Wanderlusting_abhijit]

This is a bad interview with worst set of questions!!!!

[@swissnor]

Meryl Streep in real life is of Jewish ancestry.

[@sweetlipz223]

The interviewer is horrible

[@muncangel5993]

How right the interviewer was.

[@muncangel5993]

...she is only saying what she wants to say...I feel like she s protecting her art and herself...good for her...not telling everthing to everybody...

[@pillbox1240]

That movie was too depressing