When Meryl Streep was 39 years old, she felt her career was ‘over.’ Now 74, the three-time Oscar winner is reflecting on those thoughts about aging in the movie industry that she had at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a writer-editor in 2023. Brian previously worked for Bustle, Billboard, Forbes, MTV, Mashable and Men's Health.Now 74, the three-time Oscar winner is reflecting on those thoughts about aging in the movie industry that she had at the 1989
“Thirty-five years ago when I was here for the first time, I was already a mother of three. I was about to turn 40 and I thought that my career was over,” Streep said while“And that was not an unrealistic expectation for actresses at that time,” continued Streep, who won the 1989 festival’s best actress award for her Cannes debut . “I’m just so grateful that you haven't gotten sick of my face, that you haven't gotten off of the train.
“They said, ‘You will need nine bodyguards.’ I said, ‘I don’t even need one bodyguard. Believe me, I don’t need one. I don’t have a bodyguard. … I never have a bodyguard,' ” she recalled. “They said, ‘You will need nine.’ I needed maybe a dozen the first time I came here because in the olden days, I don’t know, there wasn't the same security.”“It was insane. I almost didn’t recover from that. I went to the hotel room and I couldn’t believe how wild it was,” she added.
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