The queen of cinema is in Oviedo and has surrendered to the sound of the bagpipes. Meryl Streep, considered the best actress in the world, will receive the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts from Princess Leonor this Friday, but this Wednesday, after resting on Tuesday from her trip from New York to the Principality, she made her official arrival at the doors of the Reconquista hotel, where the winners stay, and where every year the reception of the Kings and the Princess takes place prior to the award ceremony.
Shortly before noon, Meryl met her audience for the first time when, upon leaving the hotel for the official photo, she received applause from several hundred people who were waiting for her and cheered her name. Next door, a group of pipers from the band El Gumial played the soundtrack with a rhythm that the protagonist of Mamma Mía (the film in which she sings and dances) followed first with her feet and then moving the rest of her body. she. The American actress, accompanied by Teresa Sanjurjo, director of the Princess of Asturias Foundation, seemed enchanted by the music and the bagpipers' costumes and for a few minutes she greeted the audience that was waiting for her by throwing hand kisses.
With rimmed glasses, blonde hair and floor and dressed in a red and black jumpsuit, black jacket and flat boots, the actress, as some of the people who have gone to see her said, seems much smaller than in the movies. Her characters are huge but Streep in person is thin and not very tall.
After the official reception, the actress went to the old La Vega Weapons Factory, in Oviedo, where she held a meeting with teachers and students of 3rd and 4th years of ESO, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training. In the old premises, he has also been pleasantly surprised by the reproduction of some of the iconic elements of his most famous films: the red high-heeled shoe from The Devil Wears Prada, the van from The Bridges of Madison and the small plane and the Out of Africa safari camp.
In front of more than five hundred students, the actress answered the boys' questions and, in addition, listened to the results of three of the projects that the students did with the topic Meryl's Decisions, which consisted of changing the ending and even the plot of some of his films. A group of students has proposed that her character, Francesca de ella, from Los Puentes de Madison, not have to choose between her husband and her lover but rather that she free herself from her and live her own life. . For Out of Africa they have proposed that Karen, from the beginning, not marry the baron but rather Dennis, the hunter played by Robert Redford. And finally they have mixed Mamma Mia with The Devil Wears Prada so that Donna, the protagonist of the first one, could create her own fashion magazine edited by the demanding Miranda Priestly. The actress has thanked all the changes and has urged the students to continue in the line of imagining new plots.
Mery Streep's first day in Asturias closes with her participation in an event held at the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of the capital in which some of the more than two thousand people attending will be able to ask her questions about her job in a talk called "Without a script" in which she will be accompanied by the actor Antonio Banderas.
The actress will close her program of events prior to the awards ceremony in Gijón on Thursday, where she will visit the Higher School of Dramatic Arts of the Principality of Asturias to meet with the students, who will perform scenes from Spanish theater in tribute to the winner.
