Here’s the first promotional image of Meryl Streep in character as Britain’s Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher!

Meryl released a statement with this photo:

“The prospect of exploring the swathe cut through history by this remarkable woman is a daunting and exciting challenge. I am trying to approach the role with as much zeal, fervour and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses – I can only hope my stamina will begin to approach her own,” says Streep.

Just give her the Oscar now!

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Pictured: Sandra Bullock, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep, Maggie Gyllenhaal & Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Carey Mulligan (as a blonde!), Anna Kendrick, Morgan Fairchild, Quentin Terantino, Colin Firth, Woody Harrelson and Jeff Bridges.

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Meryl Streep walked away from her role as über-chef Julia Child in director Nora Ephron’s upcoming Julie & Julia with more than improved cooking skills.

“I gained 15 pounds, I’m still trying to lose it,” Streep, 60, says in the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal (on newsstands July 14). “It was worth it.”

Her costar Amy Adams, however, didn’t pack on the pounds, but tells the magazine, “I was very grateful that my character wasn’t about her physique … I ate a lot.”

To prepare for her role, Streep was taught how to cook like a master. “Mostly what I learned has to do with equipment and how to use it right,” she says, listing sharpened knives, a good pan and cooking over high heat as essential to making a great dish. “The other thing I learned was, and I’ve been cooking for hundreds of years, that if you have garlic and onions on your fingertips, if you dip your hands in salt and then rinse them in cool water, the smell goes right away.”

Her favorite among Child’s dishes: “Tarragon roast chicken is a foolproof recipe and also something that everybody loves.”

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Flawless!

I went and saw Doubt last night, and it’s definitely the kind of movie you need to talk about afterwards. No one I know has seen it, so you guys are going to have to talk to me about it!

I absolutely loved it.  Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman give unbelievably good performances.  Meryl Streep is in a league of her own.  She is amazing!

I was really worried that this movie would be too depressing.  Considering the subject matter (priest vs. alter boy) it could have been hard to watch.  But it really wasn’t.  It was so good…and I have so many questions!  If you’ve seen it, please join me after the jump – I have a question for you!

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Did he do it!? What do you think?  I think he did do it…that was my first impression.  Especially since at the end, the blond boy smiled when the Father was saying his goodbyes.

But I’ve been reading online – and there have been some very good theories about him not doing it.  People have said that it is comparable to a police interrogation – and maybe the confession was under duress? Since the nun lied about his previous church, maybe he was confused – and thought he had done something wrong?

Maybe the Father knew that the nun wasn’t going to give up no matter what?

I honestly don’t know what I think anymore.  Did he do it?  What do you think!?

Meryl Streep will always be ashamed of the lengths she went too to land the lead role in hit film Out Of Africa – after director Sydney Pollack revealed he didn’t think she was sexy enough.

The Mamma Mia! star coveted the role of Karen Blixen in the 1985 film, but had to prove she was more than just a revered leading lady.

She recalls, “I went (to the audition), pathetically, in a very low-cut blouse with a push-up bra.”

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Meryl Streep has hit out at celebrity parents who sell pictures of their newborn children for cash.

The Oscar winner is appalled whenever she hears about a star bargaining for media cash over baby photos – even if the cash is for charity.

The mother-of-four insists children’s privacy is too valuable to sell snapshots to the highest bidder.

Streep says, “One thing I learned very early on is when you’re famous, you lose your right to privacy. And, if you promote your children, if you have them photographed, then they lose their rights. But, if you do not have them photographed and (do not) sell them to OK! magazine, they have the right to… privacy and citizenship. They (paparazzi) can follow me, take a picture, whatever they want to do. My kids, no.”

In recent months, Hollywood mums Jessica Alba, Jamie-Lynn Spears and Jennifer Lopez have released exclusive photos of their newborns in financial agreements with celebrity magazines.

It is reported that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are currently negotiating a $15 million deal for the exclusive photos of their newborn twins.

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