Meryl Streep Meets Anna Wintour at Vogue

[Music] [Music] can I take your coat yes you may hope I get the job many times over so Merrill jumping right in we're here to talk about your new film the post where you play my late friend an incredible woman Katherine Graham yeah obviously you've played a lot of extraordinary women what was the most challenging woman you ever played hmm oh I should say no that wasn't anyway it was that was fun Katherine I remember is one of the most intimidating women I've ever met terrified terrified I mean she was amazing and became a great friend and mentor she was so tall and so imposing and and spoke so well and she of course led the Washington Post through the Watergate scandal so obviously the film is relevant for today in that it's about how women can make herself hurt one of the themes of the film is how difficult it is to stand up and so that that sort of speaks to our moment where truth is so amorphous and difficult to nail down but it's a feeling shared by not only women but but men it's it's hard to risk a great deal to tell the truth one has to think about the Mueller investigation and the current climate in which investigative journalism is daily pitched against fake news the key is is knowing when we're being lied to or worse when we're being diverted from looking in a direction where we might learn something the suspense that Steven Spielberg has imbued the story with and and how many times it resonates the present moment is something that's pretty pretty exciting there was no halfway measures with K everything she wanted to do she had to do well yes I was reading about her mother who said I don't care what you kids do but you have to be the best at heads I think that and the burden of that yeah that was deep what our mothers do to us and I just think as a mother what am i doing Burton tonight you didn't what do you what do you sit around talking about in it dining room table three George's Harvey Weinstein that's all we talk about I mean you know it's a horrible you know we want them to be free we want them to be proud we want them to be female but you can't you put them in danger by not informing them about the male gaze and how it works on young girls do you feel that the recent events regarding predatory workplace behavior will advance the feminist agenda and opportunities for women or set it back oh I think it's this moment is absolutely thrilling this is a door that will not be closed got our foot in there now and it'll be very difficult for people to conduct their lives somebody the way they have in the past oh that's just locker room talk oh that's just the way men are no it's not we're civilized people and we learn from our mistakes do you think with everything that's happened do you feel the awards season will be very different this year more political more restrained more serious aware I think it'll be more aware I think it might lead to the moment where at least in my business where people walk into a room and they look around and they see three women and nine men and they think there's something wrong that it's off you should know you should Matt you said you're a good boss I'm a boss that's beat up all right at my house and the one we gets the last say in anything do you think we'll see a female president in our lifetime Merrill I think so yes I do good I thought we would have sooner but I think we go good yes I think that's a good place to ends and then Merrill and I can talk about important things Oh something with much love and admiration oh my God look at that decolletage thank you thank you for doing it Merrill my mother were alive to see it

Channel: Vogue

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Length: 5min 37sec (337 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 09 2017