When she won the Oscar for The Iron Lady, Michael Schulman wrote in the New Yorker that every speech Meryl Streep gave contained the best of her performances condensed into three minutes. This is true. And this Friday at the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony we were lucky enough to have even more footage.
Meryl Streep approached the lectern at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo to give her acceptance speech for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts and the pages with the words she would utter were not there. A second later, an experienced worker handed it to them. Meryl sighed with relief and in that sigh everything fell into place. Sighs from New Jersey in Oviedo. We have heard Meryl sigh in Polish, in Danish, in British, in Italian and many others, because the universality of a sigh also has an accent when she sighs.
This Friday, he also sighed in humility, the same to which many have attributed untruth throughout his career. “Part of me suspects that they think I’m one of them now because I’ve played extraordinary people all my life,” he said at the start of his speech. It will be her best performance, but I believe it and wonder where the rest of us will go if an immense actress with one of the best careers in the history of cinema continues to suffer from imposter syndrome. He sighed as he thought about his job: “What do actors do?” he asked himself, not to reveal the secret, but after having embodied it so many times. He sighed in Spanish as he mentioned Picasso, Penélope Cruz and Lorca. And he sighed with compassion, that word so prostituted that when it comes out of his mouth, like so many others, it sounds like a way, a truth, and a life. Blessed are those who sigh with her.
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