Meryl Streep Reveals The Oscar-Nominated Role She's Disappointed With

Giving hope to us all, it seems that even when you’re Meryl Streep, you’re still sometimes disappointed with your work.

The doyenne of modern cinema took to the couch on Graham Norton’s show over the weekend to drop the bombshell.

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“I’m giving myself an out, but part of it was, the structure of it was sort of artificial because I was the actress playing ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’,” she said.

“At the same time I was an American actress playing a British woman.”

Despite Ms. Streep’s sense of not quite nailing it, the Academy didn’t think she did too bad.

Among the five Oscar nominations the film received, was on for Streep in the Best Actress category (though she didn’t win).

The costume drama was based on the celebrated John Fowles novel, and was even adapted by revered British playwright Harold Pinter.

It also starred Jeremy Irons, Richard Griffiths, David Warner, and Penelope Wilton.

“I didn’t feel I was living it,” she added.

“You always want to do something better after the fact.”

Streep was on the show promoting the forthcoming ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’, the comedy-drama in which she plays the New York socialite who became an opera singer despite being almost entirely tone deaf.

Also starring Hugh Grant, it’s due out in the UK next month.

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