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What If Meryl Streep Never Won a Lifetime Achievement Award?
If Streep hadn’t won the Cecil B. DeMille and gone after Trump in her acceptance speech, Amy Adams’s life might look different — among other things.
Without the momentum of that Golden Globes speech, Streep’s performance as the famously awful opera singer in Stephen Frears’s Florence Foster Jenkins sinks back into the morass of its own middling reviews. Onstage, Stone isn’t as funny as our universe’s Colman, but she effusively thanks her cast and director and when she scans the crowd for anyone she might have forgotten, she finds one friendly face and exclaims, “Yalitza Aparicio!” before scooting offstage. The Best Actress race that year is as competitive as ever, with Nicole Kidman ( Being the Ricardos), Jessica Chastain ( The Eyes of Tammy Faye), Penélope Cruz ( Parallel Mothers) and Kristen Stewart ( Spencer) all pulling votes.
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