40 years later, Meryl Streep celebrates Sophie’s Choice
The actress celebrated the anniversary of the cult film during a big evening in New York.
Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol And Kevin Kline and are found this week in New York, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Sophie’s Choicethe film ofAlan J. Pakula (actually released 42 years ago, in 1982).
A big evening was organized in New York, to honor this important film, which earned Meryl Streep her first Oscar for Best Actress (she had already won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer).
For Sophie’s Choicethe actress learned to speak German and Polish perfectly and managed to completely transform herself into another person, this refugee who cannot escape the horrors of the Holocaust, even if she tries to build a new life for herself Brooklyn.
“We are the only ones still standing. The visionaries who gave birth to Sophie’s Choice are no longer there”, commented Meryl Streepin reference to the premature death of Pakula, who died in a road accident in 1998.
Kevin Kline made his debut in the film and he remembers it as “the most joyful and creative experience of my entire career”. And in the current geopolitical context, made up of religious tensions and the rise of authoritarianism, he sees in Sophie’s Choice a work that is still very current:
“It’s more relevant than ever if you look at the themes woven into it, both in the novel and in the film, of societal and moral complacency, of complicity and self-preservation and the presence ever persistent and enduring absolute evil in the world…”
Sophie’s Choice had attracted 1.1 million spectators in theaters at the time in France and gleaned 30 million dollars at the box office.
