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Meryl Streep made essentially the most of her AFI Life Achievement Award presentation to Nicole Kidman over the weekend.
The 2 actors costarred collectively within the 2002 movie “The Hours” and Season 2 of “Large Little Lies.” Streep had the viewers laughing as she joked about “the very, very hardest a part of being incessantly known as the best actress of my era.”
“What’s the hardest half?” Streep joked. “Oh! The toughest half is whenever you come up in opposition to, otherwise you’re performing with, one other one that can be actually, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually nice. That’s tough.”
Working with Kidman on “Large Little Lies,” Streep stated, was the was the time she “got here inside respiratory distance of the formidable presents Nicole has, and her course of and her seismic financial institution of emotion she’s received locked up inside there and her stamina and her drive to be an artist and her self-discipline.”
She cited Kidman opting on the primary day of filming to do an emotional scene a number of occasions, delivering a stellar efficiency every take.
“I haven’t recovered from that first day, I’ve by no means seen something like that in my life,” Streep stated. “For me, it was traumatizing as a result of I believed this girl is a Valkyrie. How is she in a position to maintain that? By no means letting up, by no means letting down.”
Kidman returned the love as she accepted the award.
“I don’t know what it’s however you’re a beacon of excellence and heat and generosity however you’ve been my guiding mild, so to obtain this from you, you don’t have any thought,” Kidman stated of Streep. “My husband will attest, my mother and father will attest, it’s at all times been you, and nobody can contact you.”
The occasion will premiere on TNT on June 17 and on Turner Traditional Films on June 27, which like CNN are a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.