Meryl Streepis revealing more details about the star-studded Adam McKay film,Don’t Look Up.
In an interview withStephen Colberton Monday night while onThe Late Show with Stephen ColbertStreep, 71, said she was commuting from her home in The Berkshires in Massachusetts to the Boston set of the film which also starsJennifer LawrenceandLeonardo DiCaprio.
“It’s about a global catastrophe but it’s sort of funny likeDr. Strangelovefor 2020 about global warming, a metaphor of that,” she said. “I play the president of the United States.”
Streep saidJonah Hillplayed her son and chief of staff in the upcoming comedy.
Meryl Streep.Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage
“We had our first scene on Friday and I was so bad,” the Oscar-winning actress said while shaking her head. “I’ve been in this quarantine because they have to be very careful and I’m totally alone.”
“My first scene was entering a stadium full of 20,000 people as the president, my big face on the jumbotron in front of me,” she continued. “And I completely lost it, I couldn’t remember anything.”
That scene uneased Streep as she described that it was “not at all” normal.
The extras were meant to have a “huzzah” moment where they cheered for her character, but while wearing masks their cheers ended up sounding muffled.
“The whole thing is so eerie and odd and disconcerting,” she said of filming during a pandemic. “I have to pull myself together for Monday.”
Filming forDon’t Look Upstarted recently with Lawrence, 30, and DiCaprio, 46, photographed together on the Boston set last week.
The film follows two astronomers who set out on a media tour to warn the public that a meteor will destroy Earth in just six months.
The Netflix movie is also set to starAriana Grande, Timothée Chalamet, Matthew Perry, Himesh Patel, Cate Blanchett, Kid Cudi, Rob Morgan and Tomer Sisley.
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