{"id":675042,"date":"2026-03-23T02:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675042\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:34:13","slug":"project-hail-mary-team-on-how-meryl-streep-voice-cameo-came-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675042\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Project Hail Mary’ Team On How Meryl Streep Voice Cameo Came About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMeryl Streep<\/a> truly can do anything \u2014 including provide an automated voice to a spidery-rock-like alien in Project Hail Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Ryan Gosling<\/a> sci-fi film from co-directors and collaborators Chris Miller<\/a> and Phil Lord<\/a>, which bowed in theaters March 20 to positive audience and critic reactions, features a school teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up aboard a spaceship with no recollection as to how he got there. While uncovering the aims of his mission, he forges an unlikely friend and ally in an intelligent extraterrestrial life form, whom he names Rocky.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling) devises a computer-operated translation system to communicate with Rocky, who emits musical vibrations as his mode of speech, he chooses from a pre-selected menu of vocal choices \u2014 one of which is three-time Academy Award-winning actress Streep.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we were on set, we did a bunch of silly voices ourselves,\u201d Miller told\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in an interview.\u00a0\u201cWe had people from the crew do voices just to make Ryan laugh and have the characters have something to react to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe tried to imagine voices that would be preloaded into a text-to-speech kind of translator,\u201d Lord added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s when the filmmaking duo had an epiphany: \u201cAnd then we [thought], wouldn\u2019t it be fun to get Meryl Streep? And Ryan just said, \u2018She can do anything,\u2019 and that was perfect,\u201d Miller explained. \u201cSo we\u2019re like,\u00a0\u2018OK, well, now we\u2019ve got to ask Meryl Streep,\u2019 and so then you\u2019re like, \u2018OK, Amy Pascal, our producing partner on the movie, had made movies with her \u2014 many movies, like\u00a0The Post\u00a0and other movies \u2014 so she had a relationship. So we\u2019re like,\u00a0\u2018Amy, you got to\u2014’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLord interjected, laughing, \u201cYou have never seen a group of filmmakers procrastinate longer. And then she did, and she was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMiller concluded of Streep being game for the surprise, uncredited cameo: \u201cAnd she was so fun and thoughtful and playful and did a million different versions: \u2018I\u2019ll do more. You want me to try this? Try that?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, Rocky is voiced by James Ortiz, one of five puppeteers controlling the creature. Though Rocky is brought to life mainly through practical effects, Gosling previously told People that in certain scenes he\u2019s actually acting alongside<\/a>\u00a0stand-ins, including his\u00a0two daughters.<\/p>\n

\n\tProject Hail Mary is currently playing in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep truly can do anything \u2014 including provide an automated voice to a spidery-rock-like alien in Project…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":675043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[63150,171,25374,53,63152,23897,23898,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-675042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chris-miller","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-meryl-streep","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-phil-lord","13":"tag-project-hail-mary","14":"tag-ryan-gosling","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}