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Why Did Meryl Streep Do ‘Only Murders in the Building’? Inside Her Decision to Join the Show
Meryl Streep joined the cast of season 3 of Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. Inside her time on the show.
She signed on to portray the character Loretta Durkin, an actress cast in Oliver’s Broadway play who ends up forming a deep connection to him. I was with [EPs] Dan Fogelman and Jess Rosenthal going through the opening scene for season three potentially being this actress walking onto a stage, auditioning for a part, and Oliver being thunderstruck by both the talent and the woman standing before him, and I said to Dan and Jess, ‘Well, the perfect person to play this part — you know who that is?’ They’re like, ‘Who?” And I was like, ‘Well, Meryl Streep.’ And they were like, ‘Good luck with that, John,’” he recalled during an August 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. If you remember at the end of season 3, Loretta reconnected with her son, Dickie Glenroy, and decided to move to Los Angeles to explore new acting opportunities.
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