I love her wit!

Lol😂

thought the same lol!!

G i am a person of color but I am so interested with Meryl Streep’s video essay. This isn’t about race, it is about skill. So please stop creating issues about race/racism. 🙄

@@fonsyalfonso8242 No one here was talking about it. You are the one who brought up racial issues, not anyone else

You've alerted to me to a glaring void in my life. A movie starring Meryl Streep as Batman.

That sounds awesome

Stop being so dramatic, Cameron.

She'd have made a good Catwoman when she was younger, and a good female Alfred today.

I can imagine the news headlines: "What if Bruce Wayne was a smart and sexy old lady?"

Omg to be in the room when they finally explained it to her! 😂

This. Although, personally to me it's not even her best role.

Gen Z's were babies when the movie came out. It was all us millennials doing the work praise-wise until this new age of streaming turned this movie into an even larger cultural phenomenon

Yes!

RedLightning17 I’m Gen Z, and I was really young when I saw The Devil Wears Prada, while watching I was terrified of Miranda, so now I have a deep appreciation for Meryl Streep.

And some of us already knew. Seriously, go watch Death Becomes Her if you've never seen it.

ninethreefivesix she meant Oscars/awards wise.

@@prashantsingh9068 ???? Obviously. That's what I meant too.

She is dragging the Academy, not Amy

5:00

I love Amy Adams

I saw an interview where she talked about working with her Polish teacher was most helpful in teaching her how to speak English with a Polish accent.

My mom had a friend who was Polish who said the same thing..

@spooky katt - you know Sophie's Choice, the movie mentioned in the original post, was released in 1982

Most people don't even realize that this role was originally supposed to be played by an HUNGARIAN. Streep wanted the role so badly, that she actually MOVED IN with an Hungarian family for nearly six months before learning that the producers changed their minds at the last minute and wanted her to be POLISH. I can't even imagine her shock after all that hard work. But still, it didn't stop her:)

Born and raised in Poland here, and I do not agree. She does not sound like a native speaker, especially contrasted with the other actors. The parts where she was speaking Polish actually broke the immersion for me.

Meryl Streep is a lot more versatile in her acting than Celine Dion is in her music career though.

@@Pistolwhipperz no. Celine Dion has a french career too, so different from her american one. She is very versatile and surprising. She definitly eat meryl streep for breakfast. You should listen her french albums, you d be surprised. Meryl streep is overrated, she slept with Weinstein( and many other). She is also known to be very mean to younger talented actresses( Kirsten Dunst, Toni Colette were impeached by streep in the oscar/weinstein academy). Her role in Prada was very realistic. Céline Dion is loved by her staff, she is based. Meryl streep is a hollywood fraud. In terms of acting the best living actress is Isabelle Huppert, then Toni Collette, and Kirsten Dunst: none of them was a dear friend of Weinstein, unlike meryl🤮.

Such a great movie! Goofy and satirical and well-acted and the effects were so cool when I was a kid. Plus Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis? Excellent, fun, smart movie.

I adore that movie! I remember my mom watching it when I was little, I would peak between my fingers because it scared me on top of making me laugh 😂

One of her best performances ever. It's what made me fall in love with her in the first place.

"Now a warning!?"

That wasn’t Funny that Movie ! It was STUPID ! Out of Africa was Her Best !

tigermelissa I screenshoted it lol

You need to put timestamps when you make comments like this. I have no clue wtf ur talking about.

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW 8:58

MS EXCEL SKILLS USED IN THE RIGHT WAY!!!

also at 6:29 ... I can't help myself, I have to point out that Karen Blixen in Out of Africa is based on a real person. There, got it off my chest. Thank you.

I can't handle it.....

Andrew Cushen Except she wasn’t, Meryl was basically family to her as Meryl is Billie (Carrie’s daughter)’s godmother.

Debbie Reynolds did a spot-on impression of Ms. Streep's very famous acting method. Only Ms. Reynolds could get away with that impression.

@@johnnieblunt6752 Debbie was great at impressions. She also did a great Bette Davis.

She was absolutely brilliant in AHS. Every season and every character she played.

@@AmbyJeans Yes, I could never call that show high art, but watching her act circles around everyone else was mind-blowing.

Omg, i was just about to comment that. I'm one those that found her through AHS. That scene in the cabin with Axeman was AMAZING

Tbh, AHS made me love JLange. She was breathtakingly beautiful back then that you get distracted by her beauty. Though she made fine performances (Frances, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tootsie, and Blue Skies), I would say that her diverse roles in AHS was the turning point of her career. It made her THE JESSICA LANGE that younger audiences, such as myself, became a fan of hers.

And Blue Sky is an amazing film, that is criminally unseen.

She’s an Actress ! Of course her parts would be Different ! DUH !

@@stevesanzari7294 Yes but not every actor is as versatile as her

I think that describes Meryl’s career perfectly. Not being typecast means more opportunities to pick more challenging roles that test her acting skills. Probably the reason for her longevity in Hollywood. But the downside was, not being marketable enough to be a lead for big studio budget pictures. Which means not getting the big paychecks in comparison to Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, and Sandra Bullock. But it worked out in the end since now Meryl can get parts in big movies based on her name recognition and get fatter paychecks now.

Man you're soo lucky, I guess you realize. UT was an Oscar winning performance back then already and so obvious how she plays for the passion of it rather than for the awards. And she did Kramer vs Kramer at the same time, telling her worried directors who thought she can't do more things at once that she is "just a little bit at the beginning and little bit at the end " 😂 at the end, she nailed it both!

🤩🤩🤩

Raul Julia was the best

Aww that must have been amazing 😊

Was Meryl secretly in Street Fighter 2?

I have been following all things Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. I wonder if there's a way for this to come up when one puts in a search only typing Debbie Reynolds' name? A way to "push this video under that search? @Be Kind Rewind maybe put that in as a Bonus subtitle of the video?

Glad I thought of it !

ego is so real

Anything except Australian. Her attempt at an Aussie accent was abysmal. Tha doingoh stowal moi baeeboi! For a good fake Aussie accent, I recommend Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker. It’s also an amazing film. But Meryl is good at every other accent- just not this one.

@@katherinemorelle7115 The accent wasn't supposed to be exactly Australian I think. The character Lindy Chamberlain spent time in New Zealand, and traces of that did carry over to the portrayal.

@@katherinemorelle7115 her accent for Lindy was pretty good. It had a touch of Kiwi. Australia is a huge country. Accents are incredibly diverse

Eric Plunder the only Aussie woman I’ve ever heard who sounded even slightly like Lindy is Pauline Hanson- and she’s a caricature to begin with. I think Meryl sounded about as accurate as Steve Irwin’s put on accent.

@@katherinemorelle7115 Pauline's accent is very real. Irwin's accent was real, also. His enthusiasm and energy were over the top and part of his act, but the underlying accented authentic.

Because not once in the video essay were these women mentioned but they are also skilled, older women within the entertainment industry.

@@45pinoy there is the whole video about it

I want her to do a video on the 2011 race-- Streep and Davis, and how Davis was the favorite to win, but lost to the Academy wanting to reward Streep for her entire work, and Davis then speaking out years later about how she felt about the Help

spiders spider The videos about HW and racism in Hollywood cover that.

@@irina9339 yes but it was only one video, primarily focused on Halle Berry

@PurelyAfrican Kate Winslet better than Meryl........don't get me wrong I love Kate but she isn't modern day Meryl at all.

Saoirse Ronan is #3 after Streep and blanchett

@@StewNWT Ronan is the new Meryl.

Locutus D'Borg Jessie Buckley (another Irish actress) is the new Meryl in terms of what is video is talking about. The range. In the past twelve months she’s played a Scottish country singer, a Chernobyl disaster survivor, a woman’s lib leader from, Manchester, Queen Victoria and a Nun from Minnesota.

@@StewNWT Ronan is the easily the most overrated actress working today.... She plays the same kind of characters

fluffer@nickxero2740

Takeo The Fox so underrated !

Name another block buster film she did ? Name a GOOD Movie she’s done ?

@@stevesanzari7294 Japanese Story

She was haunting in The Dead Girl. Her scenes with Piper Laurie were brutal. Its also has the eerie distinction of being one of Brittany Murphy's last performances(She is the Dead Girl).

Yes Hereditary for sure! I hate that horror is normally snupped because her performance in that film was amazing. Her performance captivated me from start to finish.

THIS! However, I do think Natalie Portman's performance in Black Swan was quite good.... at least in the "suffering for your art" sorta way that finally got DiCaprio an Oscar. But Toni Collette's snub was equally predictable and inexplicable.

Black Swan was not straight-up horror. It was nominated in Best Picture. Had a relatively well-known director behind it. Also, Collette was co-lead in Hereditary, a very divisive movie that the Academy would have never warmed up to. It's the same thing as with Aronofsky's Mother, honestly. I expect the same to happen with Lupita Nyong'o in Us. I so hope it won't though. That movie wouldn't have worked without her.

Black Swan was by a popular director, was wildly praised by critics, and made a lot of money. Hereditary was by a first-time director and polarized audiences (got a D+ Cinemascore). Black Swan is also "horror with a message" in the same way that Get Out was and Us is. I don't think Lupita should have trouble sneaking in if competition isn't very strong.

I was thinking of Lupita-- the minute I saw US I wanted to start her Oscar campaign because her performance is incredible and her Red will go down in cinematic history, I think@@ghosttrain9022

@@HelloHello-tm7uc She already won for 12 Years a Slave, right? Would she be the first black person in Oscar history to win two?

Well that's "Be kind rewind". This girl has the ultimate voice and way of narrating style that I can listen to for hours. And I have. 😉

Once you get there, there's no way out 😃🤭 I'm 20 man, I think I'll have the Meryl-thing till the rest of my life (don't take me literally :)

I sense you are A STALKER !

Or just A Man !

OH GOD YES

And Brokeback Mountain losing to Crash!

Would be interesting, I thought she only uploaded Best Actress though?

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YEAH!

Well WELL Put!!

YAWN ?

And maybe an actress getting a nomination from a very young age. And still getting Oscar nods in a frequent pace. I hope she analyzes Saorsie Ronan someday.

For example Goldie Hawn, who won her Oscar for her debut performance!

@@RavenPH12 I would love to see a video on Larson's win, as Ronan was definitely the runner up that year, and they could analyze why the votes voted a certain way-- Larson is of course phenomenal in Room! I still remember very clearly how many people shouted for Ronan when they were announcing the nominees

@@HelloHello-tm7uc Darn, I remember that! I think Ronan became a crowd favorite due to her consistent quality work and being nominated so many time. I would not be surprised that she will surpass Streep's record someday. I still think her best performance is in "Lady Bird", but her competition then are strong.

@@RavenPH12 agreed the ageism Hollywood has against actors and actresses under 21 is a debate overlooked

I think Toni Collette was overlooked in the Sixth Sense also. Looking back over that movie, her performance was really fantastic

Toni Collette’s performance in Hereditary was brilliant! It’s truly sad that the Academy tends to ignore great performances in horror films - Florence Pugh in Midsommar was so devastatingly wonderful, but I doubt she’ll even get a nomination.

I mean you really just going to do judy dirty like that considering she ran so the 3 could walk the red carpet .

She's close to matching or possibly exceeding this "record".

But she's having a resurgence now it seems.

I think Michelle Pfeiffer took a break from her career to raise her children, which I selfishly think is a damn shame because her beauty and talent could have had serious range and longevity.

@@Cat-tastrophee I think Pfeiffer's career was already far off a Meryl Streep like trajectory by the time she took the break and that's mostly down to role choices and bad luck. She repeatedly found herself in films that either simply bombed at the BO in spite of being good or were just not great films and could not be rescued by her performance. She admits that she doesn't have a great sense of what role would work. Upon reading reviews of Love Field written at the time of its release, I found one where she was in fact compared to Streep. And also, she WAS very beautiful and the one problem with that is a face like Pfeiffer's cannot submerge or disappear no matter what. The great actors and actresses who are known for being able to disappear into their role are generally not known for their great looks - Daniel Day Lewis, Gary Oldman, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson. Even Paul Giamatti.

@@MadanRajaRock I think Michelle did get typecast a little. Most of her roles are some variation of a character that's guarded and wary, with anger bubbling just below the surface for good reason. Like an updated version of Grace Kelly or the "icy volcano" Hitchcock blonde. (Nicole Kidman does a lot of those kinds of parts as well.)

@@appletree6898 I wouldn't call that typecasting but just innate character traits of hers that are powerful to watch on a screen and which directors therefore try to prise out in various roles of hers. When the characters are as diverse as the heiress in Wolf, the wife in What Lies Beneath or Catwoman, it is hard to call it typecasting because she has adapted well to the mileu of each role.

Oh yes this is a wonderful idea!

Yes yes yes!! Debbie deserves it!

Yeah Before The Fucking Demorats censor ALL the Movies !

Makes Me Throw Up !

Fajar Setiawan as she should 😉

Yes ! The shorter the role the better the Movie !

It's fascinating that her list of 'chameleons who aren't typecast' list was overwhelmingly Australian actresses. I'd love BKR to do a video on the Australian New Wave of the 70s-80s and the wealth of Australian talent (Fred Schepsi, George Miller, Nicole Kidman) that came out of that.

Her "Blue Jasmine" Oscar win analysis would be amazing!

Kev Low yes!! i’ve seen that movie about 3 times now and it still amazes me!

Yesss

YES

I love Meryl-- there's no one else I'd rather see play Karen Silkwood or Susan Traherne, for just two of many examples. But the same is true for many actresses in their best roles. Glenn Close is unforgettable as the incredibly strong, heroic Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp. When Glenn did come more into her own as a star in the late 1980's, she threw shade about Meryl in an interview: "Meryl Streep has never made me cry..." She later stole House of the Spirits from Meryl (and Diane Keaton would steal Marvin's Room from Meryl)-- but Meryl also is a very generous actress-- reportedly to both of those actresses. She did express envy when Jessica Lange got the role of Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams-- until she saw it, she said, and then she found Lange "sublime." In the 1980's, actresses were frequently asked about Meryl in interviews-- I remember Sigourney Weaver talking about having been at Yale Drama School when Meryl was there, and Meryl always getting the best parts.

Glen Close has been type casted ! As a Whacky sexy Older Woman that doesn’t realize she’s OLD Now !

@@Pistolwhipperz Hope this is satire

Ramon Gino Jr. Chan Yes, please! I would love an analysis of why she’s a perpetual runner up.

Yeah, why is she soo underrated???

@@WilliamMaslow Agreed! She was doing so well and now I only seen her in a few movies now. At some point, I think when The Master came out, or maybe Doubt, I thought she was ready to be the next Meryl Streep.

Ish...please don't.

@@Buckleigh oh shut up

Nirlash Karki I agree

who should have won that Oscar if I may say so myself-- Emma Stone was great but Miss Huppert was extraordinary

yes

I support this despite knowing unfortunately nothing about this person because I will watch literally any video from this channel. :)

I want a Video on Morgana !

"I can SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU!!!!" Both her and Goldie Hawn were hilariously campy in Death Becomes Her.

@@DeepScreenAnalysis not mainstream according to the anglo centric point of view of Americans. Which makes her the perfect subject.

@@DeepScreenAnalysis I think this could happen as Be Kind Rewind is a huge Isabelle fan!!!

Elle was a beautifully done film I loved her in Elle but I lowkey think isabell has the recognition she wants the French treat her as the Meryl of France and we treat her as the French Meryl I agree she was robbed for Elle .

THIS THIS THIS!!

Yes!

What I find interesting about Julianne Moore is how many of her movies are so fucking awful. Like, why is she giving wonderful performances in such schlock? Maybe it's her age, but I think she's been in crap since she was young. I think she's comparable to Meryl in terms of versatility, but because she's more conventionally attractive (imo), that might be why she's overlooked? And also she's in a lot of bad films.

Am I the only one who can't stand Julianne Moore? There's something off that I can't pin point but she's not likable, talented maybe likable, no? For example: she was on the Graham Norton Show (a British talk show), she was telling the story about how she became an English citizen because her mom was, anyway, she said that she was at the British Consulate in NYC and as soon as she because a citizen she was invited to a gala with William and Kate (who were visiting NYC at that time) well, the host was a bit jealous and the audience was like, what?? He said something like, "well, you're a British citizen for 5 mins and you get invited to meet William and Kate, and what about the rest of us?" She just laughed, but see? I don't envy her that she got to meet them but the way she talks is off putting. I don't know, maybe it's me.

I like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton ! They play Corrupt Women in Politics Well ! ....... OH ? They’re not Acting !

Adagio Breeze yup I wouldn’t peg Sissy as Southern in Carrie or In the Bedroom

To be honest I hated Shakespeare in Love. Uptil now I don't understand how Paltrow won over Blanchett.

@@DeepScreenAnalysis I disagree. Blanchett is great

Messylin I also disagree. Cate Blanchett is a fantastic actress

Agreed she’s the #2 living actress after Streep in my book

Tbh, Amy Adams is like the super underrated version of the self-established underrated Meryl Streep.

Krombopulos Michael yess

Who’s that ?

@@stevesanzari7294 ant-man in the MCU

With a Broken Nose ! It’s Bent ! and to the Left !

Agreed Meryl Streep ,Helen mirren and michelle Fairely are the exception of age natural and your still sexy idk why they think they gotta adapt cuz that’s 3 never have got work done and at ages 74,70,55 respectively there hot

​@@kkandsims4612 Sissy Spacek and Sally Field and Susan Sarandon also have aged beautifully and naturally.

I think there are two categories when it come to female. It’s either they’re the ingénue or the Hollywood starlet that gets the big $ for movie roles (Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn in the 1950’s and Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Angelina Jolie in the 90’s and 00’s) and there are the prestige actresses that have higher longevity but low name recognition (Glenn Close, and Jessica Lange). But Meryl is a special case, she has always been the prestige actress, but late in her career kind of became that ingénue actress who’s name recognition is enough to open a movie to number one in the box office late in her career. She fits both categories and I bet she’s enjoying the fact she can now have her cake and eat it to!

I heard she can have sex with 5 men at the Same Time !

Was it a HAPPY Ending ?

Yes How does he Do this from his Basement in his Pajamas ?

SassyTheWhiteMaltese love that movie

Probably Not !

One of my favourite movies of all time

Ebukar Okonkwo same!! Every video is awesome

I've seen it!

i've seen the movie. i bawled my eyes out. i watched because meryl streep and william hurt were in it and i love them both as artists. but, wow, rene zellweger, was totally the star in it. she was the surprise in that movie. what a surprise rene was that was her movie and she dominated the movie over mereyl and william hurt. utterly shocking.

Haha. But no I was confused too. Thats Paul Ryan Rudd. He was a theater actor.

Yes and No ! Yes I didn’t and No Don’t Care too ! NYC is Dead to me ! It’s Filthy !

Don’t worry as Soon as. He Kills a Baby and Sucks it’s blood he’ll turn Younger ! The Cabal says so !

Do you Love that Hollywood Abuses Children ?

@@stevesanzari7294 I didn't say that. I appreciate (or appreciated) Meryl Streep's work as an actress.

Easy there

I dare say that she is the best actor of all time

@posao 555 eh?

@@kostajovanovic3711 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion... IMO, Meryl is the most versatile actress in films ever...

@@gauravw6947 that is more grounded

Please do this one... because no more wire hangers, Barbara please.

Its Mommy Dearest.

@@ingriddubbel8468 Mommie Dearest

@@ingriddubbel8468 Thanks, I can't believe I missed that. It's Mommie tho.

Just read Joan Crawford’s Daughters Book ! Hollywood Soft Soaps everything !

I need a top ten favorite films. 😊

PFTE is great. I miss Carrie Fisher.

Leo Kennette Luceña I Love neryl as well

I think the reason she stands out is because she lends herself to a variety of people for each project she lends herself to.