Meryl Streep would like to have a few words with her former director and co-star, Clint Eastwood.
Eastwood appeared opposite Streep in the 1995 movie “The Bridges Of Madison County”, a film which he also directed. Now, the actress is taking aim at his outspoken political views and recent endorsement of Donald Trump for president. Streep was aware of 86-year-old Eastwood’s conservative views, but wasn’t aware he had announced his support for Trump. The three-time Oscar winner heard the news from a Variety reporter during an interview about her new film, “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
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“I didn’t know that,” she told the publication upon the revelation that Eastwood intends to vote for Trump. “I’ll have to speak to him. I’ll have to correct that! I’m shocked. I really am. Because he’s more — I would have thought he would be more sensitive than that.”
An outspoken Republican, Eastwood recently told Esquire that Trump has said “a lot of dumb things,” going as far as to call the presidential candidate a “racist.” Eastwood has made his disapproval of President Obama public, infamously appearing at the 2012 Republican National Convention to criticize Obama’s politics during his widely mocked “chair talk.”
After the octogenarian called voters part of the “p***y generation,” Eastwood announced that the public needs to move on from the racist rhetoric spewed by Trump.
“Just f***ing get over it,” he told Esquire, before declaring support for Trump. “It’s a sad time in history. I’d have to go for Trump … you know, ’cause [Hillary has] declared that she’s gonna follow in [President Barack] Obama’s footsteps. There’s been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle.”
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For Streep, who earlier this year appeared in orange-face and a fat suit on stage as part of a satire mocking Trump, tells Variety that she has faith in the American public’s judgment when it’s time to head to the polls.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Streep admits. “If you’re an actor and all you do, all you’re interested in, are people and their contradictions and their possibilities good and bad, you can feel what they say about appealing to the angels of our better nature. I think there is a reckoning. People will go — or their wives will go — ‘You know what? This is crazy. It’s too tricky. We’re not going to gamble with our children’s future.'”
