NAMES IN THE NEWS : Streep Sings Country in Film
She does great foreign accents, but can Meryl Streep sing country?
Apparently so, given a little practice.
The 41-year-old Streep belts out a country tune in “Postcards From the Edge,” a film based on Carrie Fisher’s novel about a drug-plagued actress who, among other things, sings in a Western movie.
“I was beside myself with fear,” Streep said in the Aug. 6 issue of Time magazine. “My knees were going a mile a minute, and my upper lip was uncontrollable.”
Streep said she practiced the song for three days until she and director Mike Nichols were satisfied. The movie comes out this fall.
It won’t be Streep’s first on-screen song. She sang in “Ironweed” and “Silkwood.”
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