{"id":91047,"date":"2024-05-15T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=252653"},"modified":"2024-05-27T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:03:49","slug":"meryl-streep-cannes-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/meryl-streep-cannes-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Tears, Meryl Streep Recounts How She Thought Her Career Was Over At 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 14: Meryl Streep attends “Le Deuxie\u0300me Acte” (“The Second Act”) Screening & opening ceremony red carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meryl Streep<\/a> has been awarded the honorary Palme d\u2019Or award at the Festival de Cannes\u2019<\/a> Opening Ceremony. The accolade, which is shaped like a golden palm,\u00a0recognises lifetime achievements and outstanding contributions to cinema.<\/p>\n

In Cannes, and in a divine Dior haute couture<\/a> white silk gown, Streep, 74, accepted the award and likened the act of looking back at her film career to \u201clooking out the window of a bullet train, watching my youth fly into my middle age right onto where I am standing on this stage tonight. So many faces and so many places that I remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it when Streep recounted the last time she was in Cannes that the audience inside the Grand Lumi\u00e8re Theatre<\/a> began to well up. The year was 1989 and the Oscar-winning actress was promoting Evil Angels<\/em>, a film which chronicled Australia\u2019s own Lindy Chamberlain and her nine-month-old baby Azaria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was already a mother of three, I was about to turn 40 and I thought that my career was over,\u201d Streep said. \u201cThat was not an unrealistic expectation for actresses at that time. And the only reason that I\u2019m here tonight and that it continued is because of the very gifted artists with whom I\u2019ve worked, including Madame La President,\u201d she said, gesturing to jury president Greta Gerwig, who directed her in Little Women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] just so grateful that you haven\u2019t gotten sick of my face and you haven\u2019t gotten off the train,\u201d Streep continued. \u201cMy mother, who is usually right about everything, said to me: \u2018Meryl, my darling, you\u2019ll see. It all goes so fast. So fast.\u2019 And it has, and it does. Except for my speech, which is too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 14: Meryl Streep attends “Le Deuxie\u0300me Acte” (“The Second Act”) Screening & opening ceremony red carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 14: Meryl Streep attends “Le Deuxi\u00e8me Acte” (“The Second Act”) Screening & opening ceremony red carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by JB Lacroix\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Festival de Cannes\u2019 opening ceremony heralds the beginning of the two-week film festival. Big ticket films<\/a> are premiering this season in the city including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/em><\/a> (with Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth), Bird <\/em>(with Barry Keoghan<\/a>), Kinds Of Kindness<\/em> <\/a>(Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley<\/a> and Willem Dafoe), Oh, Canada<\/em> (Jacob Elordi), Emilia Perez<\/em> (Selena Gomez), The Substance <\/em>(Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore) and The Apprentice<\/em> (Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":91048,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"\nMeryl Streep Thought Her Career Was Over At 40<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Cannes, Meryl Streep recounts the last time she attended the Cannes Film Festival and how she thought her career was done.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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