Shanley on Streep
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Dec 27, 2009
As an actress and as a creative in general, I find great inspiration in John Patrick Shanley's description of working with Meryl Streep (published in this month's Vanity Fair) on his film adaptation of 'Doubt'.  I want to bring this type of approach to all my work from now on:


"She's rigorous, stringent, and challenging in her thinking.  She's completely open to free association, but she has an analytical mind that is coupled with an enormous imagination, which is unusual.  Meryl is spacious in her imagination and yet clinical in her approach to the material.  She asks questions- of herself, of the character, of the scene, of the director-and she doesn't assume she knows the answer.  She's looking around for something, and it's not about her; it's not about power or the clash of egos.  It's about the clash of ideas..."

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