demnagvasalias:

“The picture was taken before she was famous,” Michals remembers. “I had simply been told she was super talented and big things were in the wings. We went up town and ran around the Marquis theatre and had a lot of fun. I asked her to dance and she was as joyful as she seems in the photograph, just radiant.”

meryl streep photographed by duane michals, 1975. 

hypodermicsallies:

She imprints her intelligence and humor on everything, and her performances feel improvised, wild.
No matter how good the other actors were opposite her, they appeared stiff and amateurish in her orbit.
How lucky to be a series of words traveling through her mind and her body. A fantastic voyage, indeed!
| Tennessee Williams on Meryl Streep