"Oh, the singing and dancing was just like being invited to play every day. I couldn't dance as well as I wanted to but I could justify it by saying, well, Donna's not a dancer. She's running a hotel. But I felt like it was a great opportunity."
Meryl plays Donna, a former member of a singing trio who operates a Greek hotel villa and whose daughter wants to find her father on her wedding day. The father is played by Pierce Brosnan. Meryll said on Amanda Seyfried, who plays her bride-to-be daughter Sophie, "From the moment Amanda opened her mouth in the first reading, I felt like she was one of my daughters. She is strong. She has a quiet voice but she has a stubborn streak. The word that keeps coming up about her is delicious. That's the way I feel about my girls. It's very easy to feel that Amanda was too young to get married, just like the way I feel about my girls."
Reflecting on her own family life, Meryl declared : "As time goes on, I'm just more grateful to be alive. I have so many friends who have been ill. I'm really grateful for everything I'm given and I'm given a great deal. I feel compelled to give back in different ways. My New Year's resolution was to give more, engage more because I'm a crab. I'm a Cancer. I don't like to go out and party but I'm trying to be more engaging and deal with the world outside more because life is short. You've got to meet everybody you can."
(Source : Nepales, Ruben V. "At ease in Greece with Meryl Streep." Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 11, 2008)
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