Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
Meryl Streep in the 2000s review of the film, critic A.O. Scott of "The New York Times" affirmed that, "by now, [Streep] has exhausted every superlative that exists, and to suggest that she has outdone herself is only to say that she's done it again". As in 2002 and the year before, Streep received a second Golden Globe nomination for her cast in another project that year: Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy "It's Complicated" (2009). Starring alongside Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, Streep played a successful bakery owner who starts a secret affair with her ex-husband ten years after their divorce. Written by Meyers with Streep