has given her honest opinion about the state of movie characters, lamenting that they lack complexity.
Meryl Streep Disses Boring Marvel Movies!
Meryl Streep has given her honest opinion about the state of movie characters, lamenting that they lack complexity.While promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2 in a ...
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While promoting in a Hits Radio interview, the 76-year-old Oscar winner said the superhero genre has flattened characters.
Streep was interviewed alongside co-stars and when she was asked about viewers seeing a softer side of her cutthroat portrayal of Miranda Priestly.
'I feel like you get a realistic view,' she reasoned. 'I think we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now. We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it's so boring.'
The legendary star added: 'What's really interesting about life is that some of the heroes are flawed and some of the villains are human and interesting and have their own strengths. So that's what I like about this [movie]. It's messier.'
Marvel is known for its box office franchises including Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, and Hulk, among many others.
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Meryl Streep has given her honest opinion about the state of film characters, lamenting that 'we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now'; pictured in April
Marvel is known for its box office franchises including Iron Man (pictured), Captain America, Black Panther, and Hulk, among many others
The Devil Wears Prada 2 premiered in theaters on Friday.
The follow-up to the original 2006 flick sees Hathaway reprise her role as Andrea Sachs, the former Runway magazine assistant who returns to work with editor-in-chief Priestly.
'We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it's so boring,' Streep said
The Oscar-winning silver screen siren plays the cutthroat magazine editor Miranda Priestley in the Devil Wears Prada films
Streep was interviewed alongside co-stars Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt when she was asked about viewers seeing a softer side of her cutthroat portrayal of Miranda Priestly
The long-awaited sequel hit theaters on Friday
Streep then weighed in, 'There are so many Anne Hathaways that you're going to apply to that you can't write it yourself?
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'That would be an absolute killer – nobody on that list gets that job. That's just tragic, in my opinion. Don't let the human get away girls. The future is female, so you better hold on.'
The initial Devil Wears Prada film is
She described her time working with the renowned publication as 'crazy.'
While in the position for less than a year, her time at the publication inspired the hit movie.
DailyMail film critic Brian Viner described the sequel as 'smart and funny,' adding, 'There are plenty of satisfying one-liners indicating how the world has changed in 20 years.'
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