Meryl Streep receives honorary Palme d'or at Cannes 2024

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Juliette Binoche remet une Palme d'or d'honneur à la "Dancing Queen" Meryl Streep 💃 C'est officiel, le 77e Festival de Cannes peut commencer ! #Cannes2024

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Juliette Binoche awards an honorary Palme d'or to "Dancing Queen" Meryl Streep 💃 It's official, the 77th Festival… pic.twitter.com/t3RQhuFuGW
- Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 14, 2024

Meryl Streep received the honorary Palme d'Or award during the Cannes Film Festival opening ceremony on Tuesday.
This is the first time Meryl has been in Cannes in 35 years, after in 1989 she won the Best Actress award for "Evil Angels (Known also as "A Cry in the Dark"). “I was already a mother of three, I was about to turn 40 and I thought that my career was over”, the 21 times oscar nominee and 3-time winner said, remembering the last time she was at Cannes.

“That was not an unrealistic expectation for actresses at that time. And the only reason that I’m here tonight and that it continued is because of the very gifted artists with whom I’ve worked, including Madame La President,” she said, gesturing to this year's jury president Greta Gerwig, who directed her in 2019’s “Little Women.” “And, incidentally, that was my daughter she was beating up in ‘Frances Ha’ in the first clip. I’ll speak to you about that later.”
She said that watching the ceremony’s retrospective clips of her career was “like looking out the window of a bullet train, watching my youth fly into my middle age, right onto where I am standing on this stage tonight. So many faces and so many places that I remember.”
She ended her speech saying that she is “just so grateful that you haven’t gotten sick of my face and you haven’t gotten off the train. My mother, who is usually right about everything, said to me: ‘Meryl, my darling, you’ll see. It all goes so fast. So fast.’ And it has, and it does,” Streep said. “Except for my speech, which is too long.”

"Oh, don’t be ridiculous, Andrea. Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be Meryl Streep!" 👒 #Photocall 📸 Meryl Streep, Honorary Palme d’or / Palme d'or d'honneur #Cannes2024 pic.twitter.com/Yi8qw2amRD
- Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 14, 2024

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