From Sophie’s Choice to The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep has enthralled us for almost 40 years in many roles. For nearly all that time Meryl, who is 65 on June 22, has been happily married to just one man – a rarity for the film world.
But her husband was not her ‘first love’.
Today’s Needull is an insightful account of her tragic love affair with the equally talented John Cazale (best known as Fredo Corleone in the Godfather movies, and one who exemplified the 70’s French notion of jolie laide, or “ugly-beautiful”). At the end of it, I’m sure, your respect for this amazing actress and human being will go up a few notches further.
For all her later accomplishments — 19 Academy Award nominations, the most of any actress in history, and three wins — her friends and fellow actors most admire Streep for her devotion to Cazale, for the strength of character such a young woman showed.
Bonus Read – Edited extract from the book Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, by Michael Schulman
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I never knew this about Meryl and John! This gives me an added respect for the woman. — YUR