This morning, Emma Stone reacted to her Golden Globe nomination for Birdman
with a pitch-perfect statement in which she expressed appreciation for
the honor and ribbed the all-reigning queen of Hollywood, Meryl Streep—who happens to be her competition in the best-supporting-actress category for Into the Woods.
“I have no words,” Stone said. “I am so incredibly honored and grateful
for this and feel insanely lucky to have had the chance to work with
Alejandro, Michael, Edward, and the whole cast and crew of the beautiful
madness that is Birdman. Now can someone please explain who this ‘Meryl Streep’ woman is?!”
Stone is the latest in a series of Streep’s awards competitors who have had the good humor (and, in some cases, just gall) to poke fun at or just throw shade at the three-time Oscar winner. Ahead, a brief history of the culprits and their cutups or putdowns.
Jennifer Lawrence: When Lawrence climbed onstage to accept her 2013 Golden Globe, the actress, who was beating out Streep for August: Osage County, looked at her statuette’s inscription and blurted out, “Oh, what does it say? ‘I beat Meryl!’” Some audience members did not realize that the quip was an innocent nod to a 1996 comedy. “It’s never a good idea for me to wing it, but it was a quote from First Wives Club,” the Silver Linings Playbook star later told David Letterman. The actress also used her segment on the Late Show to repent for her sin of mock-dissing Meryl. “First of all, it’s Meryl Streep. You can’t offend Meryl Streep.” Still, she did not understand how the Internet could misinterpret her playful remark. “All of a sudden I hate Meryl Streep. Is that what this turned into? I don’t like Meryl Streep? As if I had my eyes on getting that girl forever and I was like, ‘Finally! I knew it would happen one day.’” (About a month later, Lawrence tripped on her way up to accept her Oscar. We’re not saying that the slip was punishment from the Meryl Streep gods she had unintentionally angered during her Golden Globes ad lib. But we’re also not saying it was not.)
Sandra Bullock: Perhaps no actress has had as much fun rivaling Meryl Streep than Bullock. During the lead up to the 2010 Oscars, Bullock (who would win for The Blind Side) regularly ribbed her fellow nominee (who was up for Julie & Julia). “With Meryl, when [the awards season] thing started, I left her a voice mail going, ‘You've got to watch your back. I’m gonna cut you. I’m gonna take you down,” Bullock told the Associated Press. “And then she sent me dead orchids and told me to die, so I sent her a case of liquor and told her to toast to white trash.” When the two were paired up against each other again in 2014 (for Gravity and August: Osage County), Bullock joked, “People don't realize that there's a side of Meryl that's just mean. You walk away and she'll just rip your dress . . . I know not to turn my back on her.” If the fight were physical, she joked, “I will try to kick her ass but she will kill me. That's just how it's gonna end and then she'll be lovely Meryl again and I'll just be dead.”
Katharine Hepburn: The legendary actress was nominated alongside Streep at the 1982 Oscars, where she beat the then up-and-comer thanks to her performance in On Golden Pond. Although Hepburn did not say anything publicly, her official biographer A. Scott Berg wrote that Streep was Hepburn’s “least favorite modern actress.” Perhaps a swipe taken out of jealousy, the biographer wrote that all Hepburn could hear when Streep was on-screen was, “Click click click,” referring to wheels turning inside Streep’s head.
Emma Thompson: Although the two Oscar winners are dear friends—a bond that was seemingly cemented with their kiss in Mike Nichols’s HBO mini-series Angels in America—the two never miss an opportunity to poke fun at one another on the awards trail. When Streep beat out her co-star for the Emmy in 2004, she joked about her fellow nominees in her speech. “Glenn (Close) is my friend so I know she`ll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in The Judy Garland Story. The only one in the group is Emma Thompson, who will hold a grudge for the rest of her life. But who cares?”
In turn, last year, after Streep was nominated for an Oscar for August: Osage County and Thompson was snubbed for Saving Mr. Banks, Streep told Ellen DeGeneres how she had reached out to her friend to offer her condolences. “I was really shocked [by Thompson’s snub],” Streep explained. “I wrote [Thompson] a long, heartfelt e-mail about how bad I felt. She wrote back and just said, ‘Good.’”
Sharon Stone: Fifteen years after she was nominated for an Oscar for Casino—the same year that Streep was up for The Bridges of Madison County—Stone threw some world-class shade at Streep during an interview with Tatler magazine. On the subject of actresses’ looks, Stone said, “I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to.” It gets worse. “I look at her and I think, I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills—that looks like me in real life.” It gets even worse still. “Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”
Kate Winslet: When Winslet beat out Streep for the 2009 Oscar (Winslet for The Reader vs. Streep for Doubt), the British actress joked that Streep would just have to accept her glowing speech remarks instead of another statuette that year. “And I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees, these goddesses. I think we all can’t believe we’re in a category with Meryl Streep at all. I'm sorry, Meryl, but you have to just suck that up!”
Susan Sarandon: The actress, who was up for an Academy Award twice against Meryl Streep, has not minced words when speaking about her peer to press. “Everything goes to Meryl first. It’s the law,” Sarandon is quoted as saying during an interview with Fame magazine in 1989. “I am one of those who think Meryl is a great actress. I don’t elevate her to the goddess level, but she does get first crack at all the women’s roles. If other women had the same shots she’s had, they could equal her.” She even added a more personal dig. “If her household runs as perfectly as her press would have us believe, I’ll slash my throat.” Perhaps Sarandon’s attitude towards Streep softened though after she beat the Oscar winner in 1995 with her performance in Dead Man Walking.
Daniel Day-Lewis: Obviously the actor was not up directly against Streep at the 2013 Oscars—wouldn’t that have been something, though?—where they both won their leading actor categories—him, for Lincoln, and her, for The Iron Lady. But Day-Lewis livened up his acceptance speech by joking that he had been in competition with the world’s finest actress for the part. “It's a strange thing because three years ago, before we decided to do a straight swap, I had actually been committed to play Margaret Thatcher [in The Iron Lady] and Meryl was Steven [Spielberg]'s first choice for Lincoln. And I'd like to see that version.”
But perhaps no one is as good at poking fun at Meryl Streep as Meryl Streep herself. When she accepted the 2012 Oscar, she started off by joking, “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no! Oh, come on why her! Again!’” After an impeccably timed beat, she continued, “But, whatever.” And when taking the 2009 Screen Actors Guild award for Doubt, she joked about her own legend. “I’m really really really shocked,” she said during her acceptance speech, before adding, “even though awards mean nothing to me anymore.”
Stone is the latest in a series of Streep’s awards competitors who have had the good humor (and, in some cases, just gall) to poke fun at or just throw shade at the three-time Oscar winner. Ahead, a brief history of the culprits and their cutups or putdowns.
Jennifer Lawrence: When Lawrence climbed onstage to accept her 2013 Golden Globe, the actress, who was beating out Streep for August: Osage County, looked at her statuette’s inscription and blurted out, “Oh, what does it say? ‘I beat Meryl!’” Some audience members did not realize that the quip was an innocent nod to a 1996 comedy. “It’s never a good idea for me to wing it, but it was a quote from First Wives Club,” the Silver Linings Playbook star later told David Letterman. The actress also used her segment on the Late Show to repent for her sin of mock-dissing Meryl. “First of all, it’s Meryl Streep. You can’t offend Meryl Streep.” Still, she did not understand how the Internet could misinterpret her playful remark. “All of a sudden I hate Meryl Streep. Is that what this turned into? I don’t like Meryl Streep? As if I had my eyes on getting that girl forever and I was like, ‘Finally! I knew it would happen one day.’” (About a month later, Lawrence tripped on her way up to accept her Oscar. We’re not saying that the slip was punishment from the Meryl Streep gods she had unintentionally angered during her Golden Globes ad lib. But we’re also not saying it was not.)
Sandra Bullock: Perhaps no actress has had as much fun rivaling Meryl Streep than Bullock. During the lead up to the 2010 Oscars, Bullock (who would win for The Blind Side) regularly ribbed her fellow nominee (who was up for Julie & Julia). “With Meryl, when [the awards season] thing started, I left her a voice mail going, ‘You've got to watch your back. I’m gonna cut you. I’m gonna take you down,” Bullock told the Associated Press. “And then she sent me dead orchids and told me to die, so I sent her a case of liquor and told her to toast to white trash.” When the two were paired up against each other again in 2014 (for Gravity and August: Osage County), Bullock joked, “People don't realize that there's a side of Meryl that's just mean. You walk away and she'll just rip your dress . . . I know not to turn my back on her.” If the fight were physical, she joked, “I will try to kick her ass but she will kill me. That's just how it's gonna end and then she'll be lovely Meryl again and I'll just be dead.”
Katharine Hepburn: The legendary actress was nominated alongside Streep at the 1982 Oscars, where she beat the then up-and-comer thanks to her performance in On Golden Pond. Although Hepburn did not say anything publicly, her official biographer A. Scott Berg wrote that Streep was Hepburn’s “least favorite modern actress.” Perhaps a swipe taken out of jealousy, the biographer wrote that all Hepburn could hear when Streep was on-screen was, “Click click click,” referring to wheels turning inside Streep’s head.
Emma Thompson: Although the two Oscar winners are dear friends—a bond that was seemingly cemented with their kiss in Mike Nichols’s HBO mini-series Angels in America—the two never miss an opportunity to poke fun at one another on the awards trail. When Streep beat out her co-star for the Emmy in 2004, she joked about her fellow nominees in her speech. “Glenn (Close) is my friend so I know she`ll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in The Judy Garland Story. The only one in the group is Emma Thompson, who will hold a grudge for the rest of her life. But who cares?”
In turn, last year, after Streep was nominated for an Oscar for August: Osage County and Thompson was snubbed for Saving Mr. Banks, Streep told Ellen DeGeneres how she had reached out to her friend to offer her condolences. “I was really shocked [by Thompson’s snub],” Streep explained. “I wrote [Thompson] a long, heartfelt e-mail about how bad I felt. She wrote back and just said, ‘Good.’”
Sharon Stone: Fifteen years after she was nominated for an Oscar for Casino—the same year that Streep was up for The Bridges of Madison County—Stone threw some world-class shade at Streep during an interview with Tatler magazine. On the subject of actresses’ looks, Stone said, “I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to.” It gets worse. “I look at her and I think, I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills—that looks like me in real life.” It gets even worse still. “Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”
Kate Winslet: When Winslet beat out Streep for the 2009 Oscar (Winslet for The Reader vs. Streep for Doubt), the British actress joked that Streep would just have to accept her glowing speech remarks instead of another statuette that year. “And I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees, these goddesses. I think we all can’t believe we’re in a category with Meryl Streep at all. I'm sorry, Meryl, but you have to just suck that up!”
Susan Sarandon: The actress, who was up for an Academy Award twice against Meryl Streep, has not minced words when speaking about her peer to press. “Everything goes to Meryl first. It’s the law,” Sarandon is quoted as saying during an interview with Fame magazine in 1989. “I am one of those who think Meryl is a great actress. I don’t elevate her to the goddess level, but she does get first crack at all the women’s roles. If other women had the same shots she’s had, they could equal her.” She even added a more personal dig. “If her household runs as perfectly as her press would have us believe, I’ll slash my throat.” Perhaps Sarandon’s attitude towards Streep softened though after she beat the Oscar winner in 1995 with her performance in Dead Man Walking.
Daniel Day-Lewis: Obviously the actor was not up directly against Streep at the 2013 Oscars—wouldn’t that have been something, though?—where they both won their leading actor categories—him, for Lincoln, and her, for The Iron Lady. But Day-Lewis livened up his acceptance speech by joking that he had been in competition with the world’s finest actress for the part. “It's a strange thing because three years ago, before we decided to do a straight swap, I had actually been committed to play Margaret Thatcher [in The Iron Lady] and Meryl was Steven [Spielberg]'s first choice for Lincoln. And I'd like to see that version.”
But perhaps no one is as good at poking fun at Meryl Streep as Meryl Streep herself. When she accepted the 2012 Oscar, she started off by joking, “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no! Oh, come on why her! Again!’” After an impeccably timed beat, she continued, “But, whatever.” And when taking the 2009 Screen Actors Guild award for Doubt, she joked about her own legend. “I’m really really really shocked,” she said during her acceptance speech, before adding, “even though awards mean nothing to me anymore.”
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