Posted by Richard Head

Friday January 8, 2010

MERYL Streep says the only person she has been star-struck by is US President Barack Obama.

The 60-year-old actress can usually maintain her composure when she meets other actors she respects but admits she was in awe of Obama — America’s first black President — and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama.

“I went to the Whitehouse and was star-struck by our President and First Lady,” she said. “Although I was also impressed by Bruce Springsteen, who was there as well.”

Streep — who can currently be seen in new romantic comedy It’s Complicated opposite Alec Baldwin — is fully behind President Obama and believes he is more than capable of making the right political choices for the US.

“I think it’s thrilling to have someone who is thoughtful and can articulate, with a certain amount of passion and dispassion, the necessary choices that we have in the world,” she added.

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