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Shock split..Meryl Streep and husband. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2023 OP
I'm sorry to hear this, but it's not that unusual FakeNoose Oct 2023 #1
I recently found out that she... progressoid Oct 2023 #2
She is so good in "only murders in the building" season 3. Sooo good Demovictory9 Oct 2023 #3
Yeah she is! progressoid Oct 2023 #4
Now that NJCher Nov 2023 #5

progressoid

(51,375 posts)
2. I recently found out that she...
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 09:40 PM
Oct 2023
...performed an abortion on herself for a “death scene” exercise at Yale.
Unsurprisingly, Meryl Streep was the star student in her class at Yale, where she went to get an MFA after graduating from Vassar. In her first year, Streep had to take an acting class with Tom Haas, who, according to then-dean Robert Brustein, was the “bane” of her existence. One of the exercises for first-year students was acting out a death scene. Whereas other students went the conventional route of setting themselves on fire or shooting themselves, Streep decided to perform an abortion on herself. One of her classmates said she was “incredibly intense” and said that her last name became a verb: “to Streep it up” meant to step up your game.

https://www.vulture.com/2016/04/7-things-from-meryl-streeps-biography-her-again.html

This apparently came out in a biography a few years ago.


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