Close-up: Although Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson endured a stormy relationship during their first film Heartburn, a new biography has claimed they would disappear inside his trailer together when making Ironweed in 1987 With that permanent grin, quizzical eyebrow and wicked gleam in his eye, Jack Nicholson has famously seduced scores of glamorous women, amply living up to the ‘horny little devil’ he played in The Witches Of Eastwick. But the serene Meryl Streep, Hollywood’s sweetheart, was never assumed to be one of them. They had endured a notably stormy relationship on their first film together, Heartburn. So — as a new biography claims — there was some surprise among fellow cast and crew of their second movie, the 1987 drama Ironweed, when Streep, then aged 37, disappeared into Nicholson’s Winnebago trailer for long tete-a-tetes with her 50-year-old co-star.
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Book claims pair enjoyed 'tete-a-tetes' inside his Winnebago
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Streep was married to Don Gummer and denied allegations at the time
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Biographer Marc Eliot also details drug use of superstar Jack Nicholson
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