Meryl Streep has given her honest opinion about the state of movie characters, disappointed in the fact that they lack complexity.
While promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2 in a Hits Radio interview, the 76-year-old Oscar winner said the superhero genre has flattened characters.
Streep was interviewed alongside co-stars Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt when she was asked about viewers seeing a softer side of her cutthroat portrayal of Miranda Priestly.
“I feel like you get a realistic view,” she explained, adding, “I think we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now. We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it’s so boring.”
The legendary actress added, “What’s really interesting about life is that some of the heroes are flawed and some of the villains are human and interesting and have their own strengths. So, that’s what I like about this [movie]. It’s messier.”
Marvel is known for its box office franchises including Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, and Hulk, among many others.
Meanwhile The Devil Wears Prada 2 premiered in theaters on Friday.
The follow-up to the original 2006 flick sees Hathaway reprise her role as Andrea Sachs, the former Runway magazine assistant who returns to work with editor-in-chief Priestly.
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