'She liked yelling at me': Meryl Streep reveals her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer enjoyed their arguments onscreen in Ricki And The Flash
It may be Meryl Streep's third film project with daughter Mamie Gummer but Ricki And The Flash proved to be their most challenging collaboration.
The 66-year-old revealed on Monday during an appearance on Today that she and her 32-year-old daughter had some tension onscreen.
'She really enjoyed railing at me,' the Oscar winning actress said wryly during her brief appearance on breakfast TV.
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Legend: Meryl Streep appeared on Today to talk about her new movie Ricki And The Flash on Monday morning
In the film, directed by Jonathan Demme, Streep plays an ageing rocker who finally returns home to her now grown daughter and ex husband.
During her chat she revealed how she and Mamie shared some profound arguments onscreen, as they play a mother and daughter dealing with issues of abandonment.
'Well that's happened before,' she joked, indicating that like most parents and children they've had some disagreements in the past.
Freaking out: The 66-year-old revealed that her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer appeared to enjoy taking her to task in the film
Playful: 'I don't know where she pulled it up from. But she really enjoyed railing at me,' she then said with mock innocence
'I don't know where she pulled it up from. But she really enjoyed railing at me,' she then said with mock innocence and surprise at her daughter's ability to act like a resentful child.
'We are very close,' she said on a more somber note, concluding. 'And she is nothing like Julie, And I am really nothing like Ricki. It's just acting.'
Meryl was then shown during the Today Show a clip from her 1980s film Heartburn, which featured her daughter Mamie.
Pain: Mamie, 32, plays a daughter who feels abandoned by her rock star mother
Not the first time: Mamie had a role in Streep's 1980s movie Heartburn
Spitting image: Mamie pictured on Sunday during a promotional stint with her mother in NYC
When the host said that her daughter was one years old at the time, Streep corrected: 'She was 20 months, but she was playing one.'
The three-time Oscar winner went on to discuss her daughters following in her footsteps: 'I was very thrilled that she and her sister Grace wanted to be actresses and are actresses and are going to support me in old age.'
While she said of Mamie: 'She's always been dramatic, I hope that's okay for me say. She has always been fierce and fearless, which is necessary for acting.'
Fun with fashion: Streep wore a jumpsuit to her day of interviews, seen arriving to her TV appearances
Keeping alert: The star clutched a hot coffee as she headed into the studios
Due out on Friday, Ricki And The Flash will be the third movie that Mamie and Meryl have made together.
She was just 20 months old when she appeared with her mother in Heartburn, credited under the name Natalie Stern to avoid press scrutiny.
In 2007, she starred with Meryl in Michael Cunningham's film adaptation of Susan Minot's novel, Evening, playing her mother as a young woman.
Balancing act: Meryl wore some big wedges as she was spotted returning to her hotel
Looking good: While in her sixties she appeared slim and in good shape
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