The actor funded a new initiative to encourage female scribes to write to their heart’s content.
Meryl Streep has long been heralded as one of the few actors of her generation who has consistently landed a wide range of complex roles well into the later half of her life.
In the last decade alone, the 65-year-old Academy Award winner portrayed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the biopic Iron Lady, chef Julia Child in the true story of Julie & Julia, an entrepreneur and single mother in the romantic comedy It’s Complicated, a drug-addicted matriarch in the drama August: Osage County, a hotel owner and singer in the hit musical Mamma Mia!, and the magazine editor everyone loves to hate in The Devil Wears Prada.
While those characters couldn’t be more different, the films all have one thing in common: Women wrote them. Call it self-serving or a gift to us all, but Streep aims to up the ante and encourage more female screenwriters with her latest initiative, The Writers Lab.
Funded by Streep and run by New York Women in Film and Television and the women filmmakers collective IRIS, the screenplay development program will focus on supporting women writers over the age of 40, Variety reported from the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday."
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