Meryl Streep Can Relate To Lady Gaga’s Self-Doubt In ‘A Star is Born’

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Meryl Streep obviously loved Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born, and the Oscar-winning icon recently spoke about it in a talk with Stephen Colbert at a benefit honoring Montclair Film. 

“Every woman in this room thinks about her weight, if only it were 10 pounds less. We are so judged by how we look,” Meryl spoke. “We inevitably allow ourselves to be the object of ‘What should I wear tonight?’ ‘Is my hair clean?’ You think about these things. Men do not think about these things.”

She added that when she was young, she thought “there was no way I was gonna be a film actor never … that wasn’t even an option … Because my nose was too big … I’ve just seen A Star Is Born, and I so related to that.”

Even now, Meryl says “I’ll come upon a movie, and I’m in it, and I’m really young and very beautiful, and I’ll think, I was so unhappy, I thought my nose was too big, I thought I was fat … And I’ll think, ‘What was I thinking?’”