Streep open to playing Clinton
But it can wait: ‘All her great achievements are ahead of her,’ says actress
Meryl Streep is open to playing Hillary Clinton in a movie someday.
The multitalented actress won her third Oscar in 2012 for her portrayal of late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the U.K.’s first female leader, in The Iron Lady.
Streep is backing former U.S First Lady Hillary to become first-ever woman U.S. president, as Clinton takes on Republican Party nominee Donald Trump for the role, to be decided in an election on Nov. 8.
And the 67-year-old star is fully confident the best is yet to come from the Democratic hopeful.
“I’m very flattered to hear that,” Streep said after being told Clinton had once suggested Streep would be her choice to portray her in a movie, Variety reports.
“But I’ll have to wait for that role. All her great achievements are ahead of her.
“This election cannot come soon enough. We’ve been very burdened by it.”
Streep was talking at the start of the Tokyo International Film Festival, which officially kicks off on Tuesday and runs until Nov. 3.
Streep’s film Florence Foster Jenkins will open the festival. The movie was released in the U.K. in May and North America in August and has slowly hit cinemas across the globe.
It tells the true story of New York heiress Florence Foster Jenkins, who doesn’t let her terrible voice stop her aspirations to be an opera singer.
Hugh Grant and The Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg costar.
Streep has shown off her vocal talents in previous movies Into The Woods and Ricki and the Flash, but had learn how to deconstruct the songs for Jenkins.
“I did try to learn how to sing these arias properly,” she said. “I had a great opera coach who taught me properly. Then for the last two weeks — how shall I put it? — we screwed around with them.” WENN