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Meryl Streep Explains What She Liked About Playing August: Osage County's 'Horrible' Matriarch on The View by Ryan Gilbert

Meryl Streep isn't crazy. No, the greatest film actress of all time knows what a nasty, acid-tongued and devious character Violet Weston is in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece August: Osage County. But, Streep, who's been nominated for the Oscar 17(!) times, wanted to play the cancer-battling, drug-addicted matriarch in John Wells' film version anyway. On December 19, the legend headed …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PM on January 6, 2014

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