Meryl Streep insists she ‘loves’ her ‘adorable’ former Death Becomes Her castmate Goldie Hawn and calls her ‘one of my buddies’ but things weren’t as friendly on the set in 1991-1992.
‘Goldie, she was always late to set,’ the 76-year-old acting legend revealed to Vanity Fair on Thursday.
‘And I’m always on time, you know, and annoying. But she’s late. She had a red convertible, I remember, and she’d drive herself to set. And so that was probably the problem. She’d drive herself to set.
‘She had her hair all over. She’s like, “Oh gosh, sorry!” And everybody thought, “Oh, she’s so cute.” Yeah, so I had a beef with her.’
Streep and the 80-year-old Oscar winner starred as frenemies Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp – who vie for the same man and the secret of eternal beauty – in Robert Zemeckis’ hilarious zom-com, which earned $149 million at the global box office.
‘Over the years, we’ve had some laughs about that movie because people love it,’ the three-time Oscar winner said of the gay cult classic.
Meryl Streep (R, pictured in 2011) insists she ‘loves’ her ‘adorable’ former Death Becomes Her castmate Goldie Hawn (L) and calls her ‘one of my buddies’ but things weren’t as friendly on the set in 1991-1992
The 76-year-old acting legend revealed to Vanity Fair on Thursday: ‘Goldie, she was always late to set,’ the 76-year-old acting legend revealed to Vanity Fair on Thursday. ‘And I’m always on time, you know, and annoying. But she’s late’
‘I thought it was like a documentary on Beverly Hills.’
Hawn managed to cheer Streep up after she was forced to shoot the Oscar-winning special effects sequences, which required choreographed contorting of her undead character’s body.
‘I remember being in a green spandex suit that encompassed my whole body,’ the Yale University grad groaned.
‘Tedious is a kind of a little word for what it is. It’s excruciating. And then when we get to the scene and we just do the scene, all silly, and fabulous me and with Goldie, we just laughed. We just had a lot of fun. And she’s the best laugher in America, really. She laughs like [hearty belly laughing] and then they have to stop shooting…that part was fun.’
Streep was said to have accidentally scarred the Laugh In alum’s cheek with a shovel during their fight scene in the fountain of youth flick.
The Project Hail Mary actress was worried her onscreen husband Bruce Willis was going to be a ‘bad boy’ with ‘a little reputation for being difficult’ but she ‘thought he was wonderful.’
‘Oh, Bruce was divine!’ Streep gushed.
‘We had so much fun with him. He was such a gent and so game and willing to be ridiculous.’
The New Jersey native managed to earn a Golden Globe Award nomination for her indelible performance as the narcissistic fading actress opposite Hawn’s vengeful novelist.
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Streep continued: ‘She’d drive herself to set [in a red convertible]. She had her hair all over. She’s like, “Oh gosh, sorry!” And everybody thought, “Oh, she’s so cute.” Yeah, so I had a beef with her’
The three-time Oscar winner (L) and the 80-year-old Oscar winner (R) starred as frenemies Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp – who vie for the same man and the secret of eternal beauty – in Robert Zemeckis’ hilarious zom-com, which earned $149 million at the global box office
‘Over the years, we’ve had some laughs about that movie because people love it,’ Streep said of the gay cult classic. ‘I thought it was like a documentary on Beverly Hills’
Hawn managed to cheer the Yale University grad up after she was forced to shoot the Oscar-winning special effects sequences, which required choreographed contorting of her undead character’s body
‘I remember being in a green spandex suit that encompassed my whole body,’ Streep groaned. ‘Tedious is a kind of a little word for what it is. It’s excruciating’
The Project Hail Mary actress added: ‘And then when we get to the scene and we just do the scene, all silly, and fabulous me and with Goldie, we just laughed. We just had a lot of fun. And she’s the best laugher in America, really’
Streep was worried her onscreen husband Bruce Willis was going to be a ‘bad boy’ with ‘a little reputation for being difficult’ but she ‘thought he was wonderful,’ saying: ‘He was such a gent and so game and willing to be ridiculous’
The New Jersey native managed to earn a Golden Globe Award nomination for her indelible performance as the narcissistic fading actress opposite Hawn’s vengeful novelist
In 2024, Death Becomes Her was adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, which is still running at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City and hits the road on tour in September
Streep will next reprise her role as Runway Magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly in David Frankel’s $150 million-budget sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, which hits US/UK theaters this Friday
In 2024, Death Becomes Her was adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, which is still running at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City and hits the road on tour in September.
Streep will next reprise her role as Runway Magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly in David Frankel’s $150 million-budget sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, which hits US/UK theaters this Friday.
The 20th Century Studios comedy also features Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Pauline Chalamet, B. J. Novak, Rachel Bloom, Sydney Sweeney, Donatella Versace, Lady Gaga, Ciara and Ashley Graham.
The three-time Emmy winner’s other upcoming projects include Cameron Crowe’s Joni Mitchell biopic, Joseph Cedar’s oligarch thriller Useful Idiots and a potential Mamma Mia 3.
