Let’s talk about sex

The ailing sex life of the over-fifties is not a subject often played out on the big screen, but, says Will Lawrence, charting unknown landscapes is nothing new to Meryl Streep.

HOLLYWOOD icon and the woman widely perceived as the greatest actress in the world, Meryl Streep, is talking about sex. Even today the subject remains taboo for many — including the character that the three-time Oscar winner plays in her new movie — and Streep thinks that many of the issues stem from plain old embarrassment.

“Talking about sex is allowing yourself to be vulnerable, to show your weakness,” begins the 63-year-old superstar, “to show what you need, to show what you are not capable of doing all by yourself and how much you need something. That’s what it is. And that’s what’s embarrassing and hard. I think you can see that in the movie.”