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Marvel movies? For summer? Groundbreaking.
Meryl Streep called Marvel movies “boring” while discussing nan complexity of her character, Miranda Priestly, successful “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”
The Oscar victor made nan shady remark Friday on Hits Radio Breakfast Show when nan interviewer asked Streep astir Miranda’s “soft side” being highlighted successful nan new sequel.
“I consciousness for illustration you get a realistic view,” nan 76-year-old character stated. “I deliberation we thin to Marvel-ize nan movies now.”
“We sewage nan villains and we sewage nan bully guys,” she continued, “and it’s so boring.”
Streep pointed retired that real-life is thing for illustration nan bully vs. evil battles that play retired successful Marvel movies.
“What’s really absorbing astir life is that immoderate of nan heroes are flawed and immoderate of nan villains are quality and absorbing and person their ain strengths,” she explained.
“So that’s what I for illustration astir this [movie]. It’s messier,” Streep concluded.
Streep is not nan first Hollywood A-lister to shadiness Marvel.
Big-time movie board Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino have each gone aft nan genre, pinch Scorsese saying successful 2019 that superhero movies are “not cinema.”
The “Taxi Driver” head besides compared MCU films to “theme parks.”
Meanwhile, Tarantino blamed Marvel for Hollywood’s deficiency of movie stars, saying successful 2022 that nan superhero characters overshadow nan actors themselves.
As for Streep, she besides took a swipe astatine Travis Kelce during nan “Devil Wears Prada 2” property tour.
In a caller featurette for nan film, Streep randomly mentioned nan Kansas City Chiefs subordinate erstwhile she talked astir nan astir difficult portion of filming successful Milan, Italy.
“The hardest point astir shooting successful Milan was stepping successful stilettos connected nan cobblestones,” she said. “I’d for illustration to spot Travis Kelce do that.”
Travis, 36, responded to Streep’s shadiness connected Wednesday’s section of his “New Heights” podcast.
“I dream she doesn’t person beef pinch me!” Travis joked while chatting pinch his relative and podcast co-host Jason Kelce, noting that he’s “a fan” of nan “Big Little Lies” actress.
Travis past joked, “Oh, Meryl, you person nary thought really bully I americium astatine stepping successful heels. Okay?”
But erstwhile Taylor Swift’s soon-to-be husband realized stilettos person “a pointy bottom,” Travis fto Streep get distant pinch nan shady comment.
“I’ll springiness in installments wherever credit’s due,” he said. “I don’t deliberation I tin do it, Meryl. I’ll fto you person that.”
Streep is backmost for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” arsenic Miranda, nan cruel editor-in-chief of Runway magazine, a domiciled she originated 20 years ago.
She revealed successful a caller question and reply that she initially refused to prima successful nan 2006 cult classic, but she changed her mind erstwhile they doubled her salary.
“I was judge it would beryllium a hit. And they needed me, I felt,” she explained.
Streep’s co-stars Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt besides reprised their roles for nan caller sequel.
