Meryl Streep recalls feeling career was ‘over’ after embracing motherhood

Continuing on the subject on May, 14, the three-time Academy award-winner added: “And that was not an unrealistic expectation for actresses at that time. I’m just so grateful that you haven’t gotten sick of my face, that you haven’t gotten off of the train.”

However, the Sophie’s Choice star concluded her acceptance speech featuring a quote from her late mother that said: “My mother, who was usually right about everything, said to me, ‘Meryl, darling, you’ll see it all goes so fast. So fast.’ And it does. Except for my speech, which is too long.”

Streep didn’t hold back from sharing her first-hand Cannes experience.

She further shared: “They said, ‘You will need nine bodyguards.’ I said, ‘I don’t even need one bodyguard. Believe me, I don’t need one. I don’t have a bodyguard. … I never have a bodyguard.”

“They said, ‘You will need nine.’ I needed maybe a dozen the first time I came here because in the olden days, I don’t know, there wasn’t the same security.”