{"id":464266,"date":"2026-05-02T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464266\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:50:12","slug":"meryl-streep-says-we-tend-to-marvel-ize-the-movies-now-so-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464266\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep Says ‘We Tend to Marvel-ize the Movies Now’: ‘So Boring’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMeryl Streep<\/a> is weighing in on the state of modern filmmaking, arguing that the dominance of superhero storytelling has led to less nuanced character work across the industry. As Miranda Priestly puts it in the \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d sequel, there\u2019s a shortage of \u201cvisionaries\u201d in lieu of \u201cvendors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking in a recent interview on the Hits Radio Breakfast Show alongside Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt during \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>\u201d press tour, Streep criticized what she described as a growing reliance on clear-cut heroes and villains in contemporary movies. \u201cI think we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now. We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it\u2019s so boring,\u201d she said, adding that the most compelling storytelling comes from characters who resist easy categorization.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s really interesting about life is that some of the heroes are flawed and some of the villains are human and interesting and have their own strengths,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo that\u2019s what I like about this [film]. It\u2019s messier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStreep reprises her role as Miranda Priestly in the sequel to \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada,\u201d which returns to the world of high fashion two decades after the original. The actor has also recently spoken about renegotiating her compensation for the 2006 original film, revealing she initially declined the offer before returning on revised terms.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said, \u2018No, not going to do it,\u2019\u201d she said in a separate interview on Today<\/a>, noting she ultimately returned after the studio agreed to her asking price, doubling her original salary. \u201cThey went right away and said, \u2018Sure.\u2019 It took me this long to understand that I could do that! They needed me, I felt. I was ready to retire. That was a lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe discussion also touched on AI and whether Miranda Priestly would ever use it, another theme the sequel engages with. Streep suggested her character would have no need for it, given that she already has assistants handling that kind of work. That then prompted Hathaway to share a recent hiring experience, saying she was interviewing candidates for an unspecified role when each one followed up with nearly identical thank-you notes \u2014 each she suspects was written using ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d is now in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep is weighing in on the state of modern filmmaking, arguing that the dominance of superhero storytelling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,30883,327,100467],"class_list":{"0":"post-464266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-meryl-streep","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116502713128541378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}