Gay and Lbian Crics Name Brish Drama ‘Weekend’ Bt Film of the Year – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• EXCLUSIVE: A CANDID MERYL STREEP OPENS UP ABOUT BEG ‘IN LOVE’ WH GAY PEOPLE & HER INIC LGBT ROL
• MERYL STREEP TALKS SEXTG, BEG A GAY IN — ‘I JT N'T REMEMBER WHEN LGBT PEOPLE WERE NOT MY LIFE’
• MERYL STREEP TALKS BEG A GAY IN
• GAY AND LBIAN CRICS NAME BRISH DRAMA ‘WEEKEND’ BT FILM OF THE YEAR

EXCLUSIVE: A CANDID MERYL STREEP OPENS UP ABOUT BEG ‘IN LOVE’ WH GAY PEOPLE & HER INIC LGBT ROL

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MERYL STREEP TALKS SEXTG, BEG A GAY IN — ‘I JT N'T REMEMBER WHEN LGBT PEOPLE WERE NOT MY LIFE’

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MERYL STREEP TALKS BEG A GAY IN

I mean, I know women who’ve had gay boyiends and gay hbands. Your gay fans wouldn’t md, I’ll tell you that – as long there’s a solid script, of urse. Your “Death Be Her” -star Isabella Rosselli said that she didn’t know she was makg what beme a gay cult film until after some market rearch.

GAY AND LBIAN CRICS NAME BRISH DRAMA ‘WEEKEND’ BT FILM OF THE YEAR

When did you realize “Death Be Her” would bee a gay cult classic? Wh Donald Tmp and Mike Pence poised to take over the Whe Hoe, brgg wh them a startg lp of bet picks wh illtr histori of opposg LGBT rights, what might have been seen as almost superfluo jt one year ago — an endorsement of a celebry by a major gay rights group — tak on new levels of signifince 2017. The 19-time Osr-nomated actrs — arguably as inic a gay screen in as Bette Davis, Kathare Hepburn and Judy Garland before her — has never before been given a major award for her ntributns to LGBT culture and advancement.