Streep Fatigue

After the Oscars, Meryl Streep joked about that maybe the Academy being sick of her and she totally understood the “Streep Fatigue”, but – as we know well that every interesting and meaningful thing come after “but”, ha! – She doesn’t take anything for granted!



When the reporter asked if she worried that she'd never win again? Meryl said, “No. I have everything I've ever dreamed of in my life. I think there's room for other people, and frankly, I understand Streep fatigue. And it shocked me that it didn't override this tonight. I was really, really happy but I don't take anything for granted, that's for sure.”



As one of the ordinary audience like me, all I know is that I won’t be sick of Meryl at all, never! And as one of her loyal fans, I will be so willing to wait her fourth Oscar – even it will take another 30 years!







It’s interesting that when the reporter asked “how it felt to see herself as Margaret Thatcher?” And Meryl said, “By the time we had achieved the right amount of less and less and less, I had become acclimated to not looking at Margaret Thatcher in the mirror, I thought it was me. And that was important to me, that I wasn't looking at rubber that I wasn't looking at me. At that point in creating that character, I had already morphed, in a way, in my head and in my heart with her. And her concerns, and her interests, her zeal, her mission, her sense of rightness, and all that.” And the most funny thing is that Meryl said in the followings ”but honestly, when we first had the old-age makeup on, I saw my dad. Maybe my dad looked like Margaret Thatcher.” Ha!



I don’t know if I could say “Ernest Fatigue” for example, although I am not and won’t be a successful person in my career or in my life so far and in the future. Or maybe I should ask myself “if I have everything I’ve dreamed of in my life so far?” instead. I don’t know the answer really. Sometimes life is just full of frustration, disappointing moments, or even lousy feelings and you are just totally tired of being yourself anymore. But the thing of irony is that I am not and won’t be an actor, and all what I can act is myself, only myself! I won’t win any Oscar, but indeed the only and maybe the most important thing I can learn from Meryl is that she won’t have a “Life Fatigue” forever. That’s indeed something to me.