She worked with prosthetics designer Mark Coulier and master hair and makeup artist Roy Helland, who bleached her hair in Sophie's Choice, gave her a brown mullet for Silkwood and shaped her asymmetrical bob in The Devil Wears Prada.Ĭoulier is 'interested, in the way I am, in changing the outside to get at something inside,' Streep says. To play Thatcher over the course of four decades, Streep also had to wear prosthetics to age her face and neck. As an actor, you're looking at it and going, 'Just the breath.' It's fantastic.'
that I couldn't have done when I was 30 years old, fresh out of drama school. 'I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training,' she says. It was a stunning quality, says Streep, and one that required a lot of vocal stamina.
