VIDEO | The Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement to Meryl Streep opens the 77th Cannes Film Festival

"Thank you for not getting bored of me": said Meryl Streep to whom the audience at the Cannes Film Festival gave a long standing ovation

BOLOGNA – Long standing ovation for actress Meryl Streep, who was awarded the Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the opening of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The actress, 74 years old, very elegant in a long white dress, thanked, smiled and affectionately hugged Juliette Binoche who presented her with the important award.

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Meryl Streep, recalling her “35 years of absence”, said: “I am grateful to be here, it is a great honourthis award, unique in the world of cinema”. She then recalled her agent and the master hairdresser who is “responsible for the look of my characters for the last fifty years.” Then she said again: “When I came to Cannes I was 40 years old (it was 1989 when A Cry in the Night was presented) and I was already a mother of three children, I thought my career was over, it was a possible prediction for the time. The reason why I’m here is thanks to the filmmakers I worked with, including the president Greta Gerwig, and then to you the cinephiles, who didn’t get tired of me. My mother was right about everything, she told me ‘you’ll see Meryl everything goes by so quickly’ and it did. Everything goes by quickly except my speeches which are too long.”

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