Meryl Streep: I Keep forgetting my lines

Meryl Streep isn’t as perfect as she seems. The Oscar-winning actress admits her younger costars often feel intimidated when they first meet her but they soon relax when they realize she is just as prone to making mistakes as anyone else.

“I do feel that thing when a young actor comes in,” she said. “I feel an obstruction. It’s an invisible thing that pulsates in the room.

“You have to puncture it and get rid of it before you can start working. Usually the first time I forget my lines, which happens a lot lately, everybody relaxes. Everybody goes, ‘Oh, she’s not so great.’

“From The Devil Wears Prada to Mamma Mia!, it’s been a pretty wide variety of things. Maybe that’s because they don’t know what to do with me.

“It’s really fun. I feel sorry for the young girls because those parts are cookie-cutter. One after another, indistinguishable.”