This is what you said.

You said it was both terrifying and exhilarating to work with Meryl Streep.

What's terrifying about working with an icon in a legend and Oscar winning 99?

I can't imagine why that would be be difficult.

Oh, about the relationship between the two men she's demanding of her actors.

Well, she tried to soothe me almost every day.

I thought it would make me feel better if I Meryl's nervous as well.

As I used to say merrily, You nervous?

For about two weeks?

You humored me and said, Yes, I'm never got bored of me asking No, no, I don't know anyone, That boy Oh, it was.

It never stopped being terrifying on certain level because I thought I was inflicting this sound on people. 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:8.410 I know Merrill, whose singing was so bad the last time you were here, It was it was a good man in a good way in a good way for the movie, because last time you were playing Ricky the rock star. 00:01:8.720 --> 00:01:12.310 Your voice was great, but she was almost like bleating.

And I'm wondering, How did you prepare for that?

Well, I did have to learn nine very difficult arias.

Vintages.

Florence Foster Jenkins picked the most difficult soprano.

Coloratura Amar is in the cannon.

I did learn them to sing them as well as I could and then screwed around with them and tried to make my accompanist laugh.

That was my goal.

That she thinks she was good.

Um, well, she her judgment may have been impaired.

Really hasn't.

Many of our judgment is about when we're assessing ourselves harder to sing, though off key I have to.

I mean, it seems like it would be more difficult than to even, you know, right and make it good or more damage.

It's it's just fun. 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:0.550 It's what you dream of as if you're spent your life trying to stay on pitch. 00:02:0.940 --> 00:02:10.710 Yeah, what the hell You have described the relationship because Hugh he called her bunny was very loving her, but he also had a girlfriend, and on some level you knew about the girlfriend.

But you just started.

But he clearly loved her, too.

It seemed well, it was, uh, it was rather a modern relationship.

Sometimes I think that's why Steven Frears asked me to be in the film.

He thought, Who's got a really unusual domestic arrangement?

But it was It was a little modern, but it was full of love.

Yes, full of love.

You also had to take dance classes.

T think this part, the dance classes.

Is that something?

You know, Merrill, you sang when you were younger.

Correct.

But for you was this dance portion something different?

It was a nightmare.

Yeah, you're reading the script.

Thinking I might be able to do that.

Might be able to do that.

God, he's got the dance on.

It's just something that, you know, screenwriter dashes off.

Bring it on. 00:02:55.820 --> 00:03:1.250 But you know, I'm stuck in a studio for three months, ladies and little had to do it Well, not poorly. 00:03:2.380 --> 00:03:3.190 They were very nice. 00:03:3.490 --> 00:03:7.560 Came to the subject of politics way. 00:03:7.560 --> 00:03:9.930 We're both on the floor and saw you speak.

It's was that for you and easy experience.

Was that a passionate experience?

It was personal.

It was sort of, um it meant an enormous amount to me because I just felt the press of history behind me.

I felt my my grandmother and my mother imagining what they would feel my mother was born before women could vote.

It's very recent that we've been admitted to the, um, United States with our rights.

And so I felt it was a moment in history, and I felt like I was surfing this huge wave of of wonderfulness.

Where you living?

You In London?

Yeah, Yeah. 00:03:57.320 --> 00:04:1.900 Uh, also, oddly enough, almost life and almost entirely devoted to politics. 00:04:1.900 --> 00:04:6.730 Now, just hold back to show business to do this film. 00:04:6.870 --> 00:04:8.580 Was that nice break? 00:04:8.580 --> 00:04:10.150 You're doing a lot with the media reform.

That's right.

Yeah, it's a nice break to get back to acting.

Yes, it was lovely.

Uh, because instead of, you know, worrying about, uh, press regulation and changing the law and number of votes we can get in the House of Lords here worrying about what shade of makeup should I did feel relaxed way Ask a lot of people when they come here.

What sort of the way it looks the U.

S.

Politics right now, how it looks from afar when you've seen it.

You're smiling already?

How How has it look to you from afar?

But we're in no position to laugh because we just way just shut ourselves in the foot.

Um, but, uh, yeah, there's a I'm afraid there is a certain comedy value to be had strangers watching what's happening here. 00:04:58.940 --> 00:05:8.440 But I mean frightening comedy A cz well, and it's not just hear one sees it, you know, the bears European countries were quite scary. 00:05:8.440 --> 00:05:9.850 People are coming to the fore.

Do you have any desire for politics here Because you're very actively involved in the organization to cut down on hacking?

I think it's amazing the work that you're doing in London.

I you get the feeling that I do have a nice time.

It's a quite a sort of enjoyable game of snakes and ladders that they're playing a LL day every day, and I can see how that could become addictive and fascinating.

But in the end, I don't know.

It's just here.

Maybe any deals here.

Maybe I didn't I think you don't get enough done, really.

In the end, can you imagine, because of of what's happened?

Because the first woman to become present it.

In fact, she's a lady, and you might I feel the compulsion to serve, to do something, to be involved in a way that you haven't been involved before.

It's a tricky thing to I love being an actor. 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:8.070 So it interviews is with my dare I say art or the thing that I love doing, um, to be political. 00:06:8.460 --> 00:06:9.750 And so I am.

I try toe, stay out.

But it keeps pulling because because the other part of it is a citizen Right now we are obliged to stand up and say, I don't this this can't stand.

This is impossible.

And this is what we have cannot represent us.

So every person is obliged to do that.

Even the most private people like me thank you both because it's good to see you together on the big screen.

And you did it without martinis.

Oh, I had plenty.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you.

Hey, just sweeps women off their feet.