Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is currently filming season 5. Among the new recurring stars added to the series are Renee Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Keegan-Michael Key and Téa Leoni. But can we also expect more Meryl? There hasn’t been an official announcement, no set-picutres – and quite a closed story line. After leaving season 3 for Hollywood, Streep’s supporting role of Loretta Durkin was reduced to a guest starring appearance in season 4, at which end her character zips off to New Zealand the morning after the wedding because her Grey’s Anatomy spin-off has relocated there. It felt like the writers thought they’re good for now, but there’s a chance to bring her back. On Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, newly-minted Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who plays Detective Donna Williams on the show, promoted her new film and was asked about working with Meryl Streep. When asked by Kimmel if it was “everything she hoped it would be?”. Randolph replies: “Not yet. However, and I say that because I’m greedy, I want more. So if you go back to season 3, I lock her up. So I just put handcuffs on her. But, John Hoffman, the showrunner, told me that he’s gonna make it up to me this season, so yeah.” So, is this confirmation of a return to the series? It’s quite vage and could also mean a bigger arch for Detective Donna Williams – or in fact, more Meryl in season 5. You can watch the conversation (starting at 1:35 minutes) on Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Youtube channel. Let’s see what season 5 will bring us when it most probably premieres in the Summer.

As news are still running low and there’s nothing to report on upcoming projects, let’s dwell in the past a little longer. A bunch of fantastic magazine scans from the 1980s have been added to the photo gallery, ranging from 1983 to 1989 and coming from Portugal, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, so there’s something for everybody. Many thanks as always to my friend Alvaro for sending in these great finds. Enjoy reading.

According to World of Reel, there’s apparent early talk that Meryl Streep will be voicing Aslan, who will be female, in Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.” Aslan in the novels is a talking lion who serves as Narnia’s guardian and mentor. Streep hasn’t appeared in a film since 2021’s “Don’t Look Up,” and that was very much a supporting role. She’s mostly been doing television on “Only Murders in the Building.” The 21-time Oscar nominee is also rumored to portray musician Joni Mitchell in Cameron’s Crowe’s much-anticipated biopic, but there’s been no update concerning that project since late last year. Gerwig’s planned ‘Narnia’ adaptations are Netflix originals, and all indications are pointing toward Gerwig tackling C.S. Lewis’ book “The Magician’s Nephew.” Gerwig’s Netflix deal is comprised of two movies she will direct. Word recently came out, via Bloomberg, that with or without Gerwig, Netflix are planning to produce eight ‘Narnia’ movies in total. Streep is the fourth performer that’s been rumored to star in ‘Narnia.’ The others have been Daniel Craig, Charli XCX, and Saoirse Ronan. The film is aiming to start production in late summer with a theatrical release on Thanksgiving Day 2026, followed by a release on Netflix in December 2026.

On October 19, 1999, the Feminist Majority Foundation raised money for its efforts to focus attention on human rights abuses against women in Afghanistan at an event held at the W New York Hotel. “Shroud of Silence”, a documentary written and produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, was shown, and speakers included Eleanor Smeal, the organization’s president, Meryl Streep, Marlo Thomas and Bonnie Fuller, the editor in chief of Glamour magazine, with a musical performance by Melissa Etheridge. In her remarks on stage, Meryl Streep spoke about leadership.

I have been asked to talk about women and leadership. I feel uniquely unqualified to speak on this topic, in the present company, for many reasons, chief among them: I am not a leader; I’ve just played leaders on TV. I really can’t get anyone to do what I say, at home or at work. But I do have this fantasy job where I can, say, own a coffee plantation and order literally hundreds of people to do my bidding, or I can pretend to be Karen Silkwood and lead an insurrection in a power plant. Or I can, as I did in the next film, stand on the stage of Carnegie Hall, count to eight and bring Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman in on the Bach Double Violin Concerto, which we all then play to perfection. But, of course, when they call “cut,” Mr. Stern goes back to actually running Carnegie Hall, Mr. Perlman really goes back to being one of the greatest violinists in the world, and I go back to not being a conductor. I go home and ask very nicely if everyone would please scrape, dump and load their dishes into the dishwasher before they go upstairs! And I am a voice crying out in the wilderness. I am a virtual leader, and an actual mother, a very specific schizophrenia I’m sure I share with many in this room.

I am an actor, and an actor is a figment. I have distinguished myself by expressing other people’s pain, joy, weakness and triumph in a process that remains pretty mysterious to me when I do it. I’m famous for being Somebody Else. And so, I feel unworthy. In searching, desperately, for the thing we all have in common, I realized this: We all choose. This is where acting and life are the same. I do choose who, and how, and with whom to play. What I will and will not do. Acting is a series of choices. And so is life. Once, when I was playing the leader of an expedition down a 200-mile stretch of Class 5 white water, I took a lot of credit for bravery. But the real queasy moments came in the marketing meeting, when I made big enemies because I wouldn’t approve the use of my big face on the poster pointing a pistol at America. The N.R.A., rich as it is, doesn’t have the money or the clout to get glamorous actors of such renown to pose for their ads. But we do their flogging for free every time we point the gun at the camera for an ad campaign. My eldest daughter has been determined to lead since she was born. Most of the time the rest of us roll over and let her, but when she was 6, we were on a hike down a steep, rocky path. “I’ll be the leader,” she screamed, and ran on ahead.
“No!” I told her. “This time I have to go first because it’s dangerous.”
“But I want to be the leader!”
“No. I have to go in front of you, so if you fall, I can catch you.”
“But I want to go first!”
“You don’t even know where we’re going. Why do you have to get there first?” “Mom,” she said calmly, “you be the leader, I’ll be the winner.”

And that’s the way we’ve worked it out at our house.

After a fun February with a few public appearances, it has been a rather dry March. The previously announced Women Making History Awards Gala only featured a video message by Streep, which was not posted online, so there’s nothing to report. But there’s new material for the archives: Production stills, promotionals and on-set pictures from “Sophie’s Choice”, “Silkwood”, “Out of Africa” and “A Cry in the Dark” have been added, among others. A full list of all updates can be found below. Enjoy.

Yesterday, Meryl Streep was honored with her 4th Emmy Award. For what, you may ask? Last year, she participated in a reading of “The Three Questions”, written and illustrated by Jon J Muth and based on a story by Tolstoy. The 11-minute clip is part of StorylineOnline, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s children’s literacy program that streams online. For her reading, Streep received a nomination as Children’s Personality at the 3rd Annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, which are given out by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, “honoring creativity and innovation in children’s entertainment”. So, we can now congratulate Meryl Streep on two Primetime Emmy Awards (for “Holocaust” and “Angels in America”), a Creative Emmy (for narrating “Five Came Back) and a Children’s & Family Emmy for “The Three Questions”. If you haven’t seen it by now, you can watch a full segment of her reading in the video archive.

The hit Broadway play welcomed Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in the audience on Saturday, March 8. Oh, Mary! follows “a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln” in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination. The show plays at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City and is directed by Sam Pinkleton. Gilpin joined the cast on Jan. 21 in her Broadway debut, taking over the eponymous role for a limited, eight-week engagement. A couple of pictures have been added to the photo gallery.

A new batch of production and promotional stills as well as on-set pictures has been added to the photo gallery, this time covering the 20 years between 1989 and 2008. Among the highlights are deleted scenes from “She-Devil”, where, apparently, quite a bit ended on the cutting room floor. Many of the “Doubt” production stills have been replaced with better quality versions, and there are some nice additions to “The River Wild” and the television film “First Do No Harm” as well. Enjoy the new pictures.

Summary will be posted at the end of the year