Meryl Streep admits one actress makes her want to 'retire' from acting
Meryl Streep admits one actress makes her want to 'retire' from acting
Angelica CheyenneThu, June 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM UTC
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Meryl Streep addressed her acting skills during recent interview -Credit:Mike Marsland/WireImage (Mike Marsland/WireImage)
Meryl Streep has revealed that she was highly impressed by Laurie Metcalf's performance in Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
In fact, Laurie, 70, who landed a Tony Awards nod for her portrayal of Linda Loman in the production, moved Meryl, 76, so much with her performance that the Devil Wears Prada film star is considering retirement.
Meryl said: "I don't know how to act... When I see people do it, I think, 'How did she do that?' I just saw Death of a Salesman last night. I can't believe Laurie Metcalf just blew my mind... all of them! And I thought, 'I better just retire, because I don't know how the f--- she did that.' What an artist." It comes after a director branded a Hollywood legend as the "worst human being I've ever known" in a savage assessment.
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Meryl also joked to People that she "kissed" Laurie's "feet" in response to being asked if she saw the comedian after the play.
The Oscar-winner added that regarding acting, she went "into everything, not knowing how people do it," adding," you sort of feel and listen and pick it up as you go along. I don't have a method. But you have a feeling you know what you need to do."
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After reflecting on her acting chops, Meryl noted that she remained in character as the demanding Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly while filming The Devil Wears Prada, which was released in 2006.
Meryl was blown away with Laurie Metcalf's Broadway performance -Credit:Getty Images for Tony Award Productions
However, for the sequel that dropped this year, Meryl didn't embrace the method acting routine since she was so "miserable" doing it the first time around.
"I was just miserable," Meryl expressed. "At first I hung around on-set, and then [in a scene] I'd try to intimidate them. And they didn't have it, and so I thought, 'Oh, okay. I've got to step back.' It was really a conscious thing. So I went back to my trailer, and I knitted a lot and seethed. I don't know if it helped them, but it helped me."
Meryl's Devil Wears Prada co-star, Emily Blunt, 43, seemingly was affected by her initial stand-offish demeanor while in character.
Meryl admitted after watching Laurie she was open to 'retiring' -Credit:Getty Images
During a conversation with Andy Cohen for a SiriusXM Front Row interview in April 2026, Emily shared that Meryl was intimidating to work with for the first Devil Wears Prada.
"I mean, on the first one, I was quite scared because I felt like you were in a zone," she said to Meryl, who was also being interviewed on the show since the discussion was a part of a Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour. Owning up to it, Meryl said, "Oh, yeah. I was in that zone."
"She was in a Miranda zone," Emily added. "Not impenetrable, but we could come up and tell you a funny story, but you wouldn't do your extraordinary laugh that I normally heard."
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