Meryl Streep Reveals The Real Reason She's Never Been On The Show | Letterman

The best actress of many generations.

They have great chemistry and great fun! Letterman is definitely very charmed by her and she seems to be a natural flirt, so relaxed, open and sweet towards him.

Ms. Streep could not be more charming and lovely than she is here.

Man, I've been in love with her since The Deerhunter.

One of the finest actresses of all time.

I worked with her once.. she was very pregnant and for the first time I understood the term “radiant” about a pregnant woman.

"Wouldn't that be something, though?" LOL

Dave is actually a little star struck here, imo. Streep is an acting savant

Meryl probably didn’t want to do the show. I get that. I didn’t want to watch this video. But she did the show. I watched this video. And we are all better people for this.

Meryl Streep is both patrician and striking.

Meryl was radiantly beautiful back then, in '99. I remember seeing an early movie of hers in the late 70's and being struck by her luminous face.

She embodies femininity and motherhood. She has a special humanity, tenderness and brightness. I guess that's what makes her the unique actress she is. Of course, as everybody else she is not 'perfect' , but she has indeed a unique warm brightness, so that she never seems to be "playing" her roles, it feels as if she just lets her humanity give them life, so that the wooden Pinocchio becomes a flesh and blood child, every time.. I'm so surprised nobody ever gave her in any movie or play the role of Mary. Or even of Maria Maddalena. I'd love to see her in one of the two. She's a great, as Fabrizio De Andrè in music is (for any italian): blessed people with a sharp brain and even bigger heart, who give gifts for life to us, with their Art❤⁰

Funny, I was just talking to my sister the other day about how stunning Meryl's face is... even now!

A laugh like hers is SO rewarding, it is no wonder a comic like Dave would love her, just like the rest of us.

I love her. Dave is right her face is bright.

She is a natural beauty.. Beautiful skin beautiful bone structure.

Streep's reluctance to come on the show may have been caused by a sketch on Letterman. There was a sketch on new books in the 80s. One of the books was about adjectives you can use to describe Meryl Streep. It was followed up by a remark from Letterman about how Meryl Streep was less than a conventional beauty or words to that effect. It's theoretically possible this sketch could have rubbed Streep the wrong way.

the production she's referring to at 6min in is The Frogs - Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang were in it with her... love her <3

Really like Meryl in the underrated Falling In Love with Robert Deniro.

My favorite living actor.👌👌