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 director Redford considered the movie "the tightest schedule I've ever worked with". Upon its release, "Lions for Lambs" received generally negative reviews from critics, with Wesley Morris from "The Boston Globe" writing: "It does not feel good to report that a movie with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise makes the eyelids droop. But that's what "Lions for Lambs" does." In 2008, Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's "Mamma Mia!", a film adaptation of the 1999 West End musical of the same name, based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA. Shot