![]() ![]() But thanks to Streep’s brilliant performance – her Karen is mischievous, flawed and heroic, flashing her co-workers and risking her life for the sake of justice all in one day – it is nothing of the sort. Given that Streep plays real-life whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who was exposed to a life-threatening dose of nuclear radiation and died in a suspicious car accident at the age of 28, Silkwood could easily have been a grim, even turgid affair. Streep fans will know she’s marvellous at both comedy and singing (check out 1990’s Postcards from Edge and 2006’s A Prairie Home Companion for more of that), but successfully doing the splits in mid-air came as a shock. Streep plays the singing and dancing Donna Sheridan in this Abba-inspired blockbuster, whose Greek hotel plays host to a trio of unexpected arrivals: her former lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard), one of whom is the secret father of her teenage daughter (Amanda Seyfried). ![]() “We would try to do one take that had some grounding in human experience, and then the sky was the limit.” Streep achieves this, for despite the head-turning antics of her character you can still find something about the female experience to identify with. “This is absolutely through the roof, hyperbolic farce,” Streep has said of the movie. ![]()
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