In these last days, Meryl Streep he conquered Spain with his sympathies, following in the footsteps of the Princely Awards of Asturias. The actress, awarded the Princess of Asturias de las Artes 2023, had a whole week of events and meetings in Oviedo, between those who were distracted by her lively dance at the son of gaitas and her meeting with Antonio Banderas.
On Friday, October 20, the actress hosted a gala concert at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, which was attended by members of the royal family, Princess Leonor and little Sofia. In her emotional acceptance speech, the veteran actress addressed Spanish artists such as Pablo Picasso and Federico Garcia Lorca, and he also agreed with the Madrid actress Penelope Cruz.
Speaking about the actor’s office, Streep defended the role of completely different characters, recording Pablo Picasso’s line, “Imitating others is necessary. It’s a pity to imitate yourself,” as well as the words of Penelope Cruz: “You can’t live life looking at yourself from another person’s point of view!”
“An actor’s job is to invade, to embody lives that are different from his own,” the actor explained to Cruise this morning.
Meryl Streep’s emotional speech at the Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony
Meryl Streep became the main character of the conversation about her profession. In this way, you discover the magic of being able to bring other lives into the work, ensuring that “Empathy is the beating heart of an actor’s gift, This is the current that connects us to my own pulse and the character of the fictional character.”
She admitted that while this connection was easier to feel with roles similar to hers, she always felt the urge to understand the other, to delve deeper into “this imaginative capacity that we have to follow the stories of people from our tribe.”
The actress also notes that back in her university years she created clothes for Bernarda Alba’s house Lorca, and repeated what one of the brothers, Martirio, said: “But these things must be repeated. I see that everything is a terrible repetition”: “To do this kind of work is to give the dead a voice that the living can do. It’s an actor’s privilege and your duty.”
Streep concluded her speech by once again alluding to the power of empathy, a thing we all share and can look at each other in a world even more hostile: “The mysterious ability to feel alone, outside, in a theater or a movie, in the dark, and experiment with the feelings of people who do not seem like us is a capacity that we all need to cultivate in ourselves when we turn to the light of day.”
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