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Honestly, the only thing about the overrated and technical Meryl Streep that surprises us these days is: Where did that big payday go?
Remember three years ago? Meryl was going to be teaming with J.J. Abrams to film THE FIX for AMAZON and she would be receiving $825,000 an episode.
What happened?
The word is that AMAZON looked at their own statistics and wondered how Meryl's 'audience' could justify even a quarter of that pay?
She's not popular.
She's 'popular' the way Joan Allen is on a FAMILY GUY episode. But in terms of people taking the time to actually watch her? Not so much.
It shouldn't be all that surprising. She's made sixty feature films -- the bulk of which most Americans have actively avoided. Her average box office (domestic) is $39.9 million.
She's failed, decade after decade, to contribute a cinematic moment to our collective memory. She's never been a movie star -- that requires a special spark -- and she's only a so-so actress who is more famous for her externals (accents, gestures) than for internals. She's not a Method actress and it shows. She works from the outside and never actually gets into a part.
Where did her big payday go?
