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Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier

2024/8/28
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Meryl Streep discusses her Oscar-winning portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," focusing on Thatcher's vocal transformation and Streep's method of mimicking voices and accents. She also touches upon the challenges of aging decades on screen and the use of prosthetics.
  • Meryl Streep holds the record for most Oscar nominations with 21.
  • Margaret Thatcher took voice lessons to sound more authoritative.
  • Streep used vocal imitation as a way to embody characters.
  • The use of prosthetics in "The Iron Lady" aimed to allow expressiveness.

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Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor with the most Oscar nominations in history, spoke with Terry Gross in 2012 about playing Margaret Thatcher. And Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win best actor, in 2000 talked about how the radio helped him learn an accent for auditions.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)