Meryl Streep, one of the most awarded and prestigious actresses in Hollywood, has had words for one of the cinematographic phenomena of 2023. It is nothing more and nothing less than director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, as published by The Hollywood Reporter. According to the publication, the Oscar-winning actress was present on Thursday night at the Palm Springs Film Awards to present an award to actress Carey Mulligan, where she also took the opportunity to praise Billie Eilish and Finneas for their hit song What Was I Made For?
“I just want to tell Billie and Finneas that you guys have dropped the Barbie love bomb. They have saved the movies, last summer, and all our jobs. They have brought joy to countless generations and genders of people, and you should ride that wave, guys until you are old and deserve to be as tired as me,” said the Evil Wears Prada actress, before presenting the award.
About the honoree and her most recent work in Maestro, the actress said: “If you were to try to identify an essential quality that Carey brings to the broad and varied characters she has played, it is found in what holds us back… It’s like the little tremors that we feel here in California. “They’re not measurable, nothing moves, but you’re aware that the earth is churning underneath and when that crack opens up, it can bring your house down.” Upon receiving the award from her, Mulligan praised Streep’s appearance, acknowledging that she asked the superstar to present for her “with very low expectations.”
Also honored at the Palm Springs event were Killers of the Flower Moon, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Greta Gerwig, Jeffrey Wright, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, and Paul Giamatti. In the summer of last year, Barbie became a cinematic phenomenon, along with Oppenheimer, giving rise to “Barbenheimer”, an event that mobilized the masses to the cinema. The film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling raised $1.442 million. It was the highest-grossing film of the year, surpassing Super Mario.
This story was written in Spanish by Daniel Matute in Cultura Colectiva.
