Instead of applauding her friend Emma Thompson for her work in the movie "Saving Mr. Banks", Streep used it to grandstand against a man and a company that she just benefited from by staring in "Into the Woods". Seems quite hypocritical, doesn't it? But worse, just plain bad form. And it sounds like perhaps someone was a little to angry and perhaps jealous that she didn't get the part (it was reported according to the article that she was in the running).
Turns out these are incorrect facts.
As Fox News reports:
Walt Disney animator Floyd Norman, who worked alongside the mogul on films including the classic “Sleeping Beauty,” told us Streep is simply misinformed.
“I arrived at Disney in 1956 as a young artist. Surprisingly, there were a fair number of young women working in the art department. I too had heard that women were not allowed in animation. So, even in the '50s, things were already beginning to change,” he told FOX411. “While it is true the studio regarded women differently from men in the '30s, I found many young women who had nothing but good things to say about their years in Ink and Paint. Most loved Uncle Walt and never regarded him as a sexist.”
Indeed it was very much the norm in the '30s for women to be closed off from jobs in the animation arena, so some argue that Disney was more of a product of his time. But as early as 1941, Disney is reported to have told male artists working on “Dumbo” that “if women can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man."
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It's not the first time Meryl Streep voiced her views in an authoritative manner nor was it the first time she slammed someone she just benefited from. Enter Julia Child. Yes that Julia Child. The one which Streep portrayed in "Julie and Julia".Indeed it was very much the norm in the '30s for women to be closed off from jobs in the animation arena, so some argue that Disney was more of a product of his time. But as early as 1941, Disney is reported to have told male artists working on “Dumbo” that “if women can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man."
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Remember her speech to the Senate on the dangers of the pesticide Alar years ago (one wonders why a mere actress was called before a senate committee to speak on a scientific and health issue)? 20 years later she slammed Child for not joining her in her cause against pesticides, while in an interview in the UK's The Telegraph newspaper.
"She berates Child for disagreeing with her on boosting organic foods and criticizing fats, proclaiming that Child was “seduced” by a “front organization for agro-business and petrochemical business....” The cherry on the cake of Streep’s nonsensical rant to the Telegraph is Streep’s claim that “Eventually I think she came around” to Streep’s point of view. But interviews from the last few years before she died show that Child never did “come around” to Streep’s anti-fatty food and anti-food technology extremism."
~News Max, 2009
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