梅丽尔斯特里普完美无瑕演艺人生.docVIP

梅丽尔斯特里普完美无瑕演艺人生 　　I have to try really really really really hard. I mean that could be my epitaph: She tried really hard. 　　我一定要非常非常非常地用功。我是说，这句话可以作为我的墓志铭：她一生都在拼搏。 　　—Meryl Streep (梅丽尔?斯特里普) 　　In the flesh1), she does not have an aura. She’s not lit from within. Heads do not snap2) in her direction when she walks through a hotel lobby in a baggy maxi-dress and brown calf-high boots, flanked by her dutiful makeup artist of 36 years and her imperious3) publicist—the few celebrity trappings4) of a woman who stubbornly considers herself a working actor, and nothing more. 　　And yet for half of her 63 years she has been dubbed either the Greatest Film Actress of Her Generation or, now, the Greatest Living Film Actress. 　　So how does Meryl Streep, working actor, advance her artistry when she has nothing left to prove, when everything she does seems beyond reproach? 　　In a room off the lobby of the W hotel, she removes her glasses and hair clip and tosses both on a table. She is beautiful—as she has always been—in the remote, masky way a sculpture by Michelangelo is beautiful. Her presence in person feels like the absence of a character. And for this question, she must play the Greatest Living Film Actress. 　　“I feel more worried because, you know, the expectations are so high,” she says, brushing out her blond-white hair into a mane5). “I do work very hard. I think I’ve always been that type of girl, from the very beginning. I’m the oldest, and I feel like I have to do a good job. I have to try really really really really hard. I mean that could be my epitaph6): She tried really hard.” 　　She looks down, eyes glazing over, as if seeing her gravestone. 　　“She tried,” she repeats softly, shrugging, then releasing a husky giggle. “You know?” 　　Deep into it 　　We know, Meryl. 　　The mastery of foreign accents, the exhaustive7) preparation and pinpoint8) technique, the 17 Oscar nominations from 47 feature films over 36 years. You tried. And succeeded. 　　There never wasn’t praise