Meryl Streep, at a recent fundraising gala for the Human Rights Campaign, addressed Trump’s criticisms, while urging the audience not to let “the people who have died for our rights” down and agrees that she is “overrated … and over-berated”
This response comes a few weeks after Streep called out US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, at the Golden Globes last month. Meryl Streep was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for a lifetime of impressive work. Her acceptance speech, in which she called out Donald Trump and his policies, garnered a roar of applause from everyone, and received plenty of positive attention on social media.
Trump, in response, called Streep a “Hillary lover”, and said that she was “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”
Not one to let go easily, Streep continued to take a dig at the current political state in USA. She spoke at the gala. “Yes, I am the most overrated, overdecorated and, currently, over-berated actress, who likes football, of my generation. But that is why you invited me here! Right?”
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Streep was honored at the event for her acting career and support of the LGBT community. “In The Hours, all I did was kiss Allison Janney, take, after take, after take, after take. That wasn’t hard,” she shared before jokingly adding, “I am fairly proud of my jolly portrayal of a gay-conversion therapist on Lisa Kudrow’s show Web Therapy. I feel our vice president [Mike Pence] might want to check out those episodes, as my character’s views seem to be in line with his own.”
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