MERYL STREEP TO STRETCH ACTING TALENTS

Meryl Streep is to take a leap into the unknown, diversifying her acting prowess and playing an iconic British figure.

 

Having previously focussed her energies on playing a ruthless, self-centred, supremely powerful woman in the Devil Wears Prada, two-time Academy Award winner Streep is to move to a completely different acting milieu, and plumb uncharted depths, by playing.... Margaret Thatcher.

 

Filmologist Jes Skelam commented, “Meryl Streep? Ah yes, the one who made everyone vom, or campaign for the mandatory installation of trapdoors in all cinemas, by cavorting about with Clint Eastwood in that film ‘The Neverending Bridges of Madison County’. Of course, the fact of her being American needn’t be a hinderance. Fans of the recent television adaptation of ‘Any Human Heart (As Long As That Human is a Totally Self-Centred Supremely Callous Sycophant)’,  will have noted that the reality of recent history was not enough to stand in the way of Gillian Anderson, an American, playing Wallis Simpson, an American, with a cut-glass English accent, with something approaching moderate success”.

 

Experts believe this could start a trend, and no part, however quintessentially British, is safe from Hollywood’s grip. Cockney chimney sweeps are prepared to be played by Americans with some kind of weird jig as a cover-up for their lack of any real acting talent. It has even been suggested that Scottish history could be rewritten by narcissitic, Australian/American fascists. Suggestions that American action heroes could be played by small-town Austrian country body-builders who go on to govern the richest state in the U.S., with a GDP the size of Spain’s, and rob it of any financial stability were however dismissed as fantastical.