Since the Netflix movie musical “The Prom” started screening for press, Meryl Streep‘s odds in the Best Actress Oscar race have been rising. Could she receive a record-extending 22nd nomination?
See‘The Prom’ costume designer Lou Eyrich on heightened style of Ryan Murphy musical: ‘Like reality, but with a little kick’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Streep plays a vain but washed-up Broadway actress trying to revitalize her career by latching onto a political cause, specifically the plight of a teenage girl (Jo Ellen Pellman) whose school community tries to stop her from taking her girlfriend to the prom. Streep gets to show off her song-and-dance skills in a number of musical numbers, and it wouldn’t be her first Oscar nomination for a musical performance: she earned a Best Supporting Actress nom for the Sondheim adaptation “Into the Woods” (2014), and she contended for Best Actress for pretending to sing badly in “Florence Foster Jenkins...
See‘The Prom’ costume designer Lou Eyrich on heightened style of Ryan Murphy musical: ‘Like reality, but with a little kick’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Streep plays a vain but washed-up Broadway actress trying to revitalize her career by latching onto a political cause, specifically the plight of a teenage girl (Jo Ellen Pellman) whose school community tries to stop her from taking her girlfriend to the prom. Streep gets to show off her song-and-dance skills in a number of musical numbers, and it wouldn’t be her first Oscar nomination for a musical performance: she earned a Best Supporting Actress nom for the Sondheim adaptation “Into the Woods” (2014), and she contended for Best Actress for pretending to sing badly in “Florence Foster Jenkins...
- 12/19/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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