Meryl Streep Grateful to be Alive
Posted by Richard Head
MERYL Streep feels “very f**king grateful” to be alive.
The It’s Complicated actress is astonished by how much acting work she is still offered, even though she recently celebrated her 60th birthday.
“I’m very f***ing grateful to be alive,” she told Vanity Fair magazine. “I have so many friends who are sick or gone, and I’m here. Are you kidding? No complaints!
“It’s incredible — I’m 60, and I’m playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies!”
The Devil Wears Prada actress is particularly surprised to still be working as she thought she had reached her “sell-by date” over 20 years ago.
“I’ve been given great, weird, interesting parts well past my sell-by date,” she said. “I remember saying to my husband when I was 38, ‘Well, it’s over.’ And then we kicked the can down the road a little further.”
Although she is delighted to still be starring in successful films, Meryl insists she would never have cosmetic surgery to boost her chances of landing further roles.
“When I see it in people I meet, it’s like an interruption in communication with them,” she added. “It’s like a flag in front of the view, and that, for an actor, is like wearing a veil — it’s not a good thing.”
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