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EvenMeryl Streepsuffered from low self-esteem when she was young.
The iconic actress, 69, appeared withStephen Colbert, 54, at the annual Montclair Film fundraiser in New Jersey where they discussed several topics, including Streep’s early years as an actress. That’s when the Oscar winner revealed she doesn’t like to watch her old films because they remind her of her poor mental state at the time.
“I’ll come upon a movie I’m in, and I’m very young and very beautiful. But I was so unhappy,” she said,according toVanity Fair. “I thought my nose was too big, I thought I was fat. Because these are things that people tell you.”
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Streep then went on to explain how she has played with her image throughout her career, sometimes stepping into roles that purposely took away her beauty and instead focused on her talent.
“I could play older when I was young. I could play a man inAngels in America. I could screw around with how I looked,” she said. “Which to me is a political act: to say ‘it’s not always going to attract your lust or your interest, or anything to do with ingratiation.’”
Stephen Colbert and Meryl Streep.Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images
After saying that “empathy is the thing that will save us,” Streep opened up about her feelings towards President Donald Trump, whom Colbert said is “indifferent to empathy.”
Streep was previously in the president’s crosshairs after a fiery speech denouncing him at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards went viral.
She next stars inMary Poppins Returns, out Dec. 19.
source: people.com
