Meryl Streep “had a beef” with her “Death Becomes Her” co-star Goldie Hawn while filming the 1992 movie.
Speaking to Vanity Fair on Thursday, the actress looked back at some of her most iconic roles — including the dark comedy — before recalling her on-set issue with Hawn.
“Goldie, she was always late to set,” Streep remembered. “And I’m always on time, you know, and annoying.”
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“But she was so adorable,” Streep added. “She had a red convertible, I remember, and she’d drive herself to set. So that was probably the problem.
“She’d drive herself to set,” she continued. “She had her hair all … ‘Oh gosh, sorry!’ And everybody thought, ‘Oh, she’s so cute.’ Yeah. So I had a beef with her.”
However, the “Devil Wears Prada” star called their time together on set “silly and fabulous.”
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“We just laughed,” Streep told the outlet. “We just had a lot of fun. And she’s the best laugher in America, really. She laughs like, ‘Ahahaha!’ And then they have to stop shooting. But that part was fun.”
She also clarified there is no actual beef between them, gushing that Hawn is “one of her buddies.”
“Over the years, we’ve had some laughs about that movie because people love it. I thought it was like a documentary on Beverly Hills,” Streep said.
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“Death Becomes Her” follows a violent feud between actress Madeline (Streep) and her former friend Helen (Hawn) as they fight over a plastic surgeon (Bruce Willis).
Talking about their other co-star, Streep gushed, “Oh, Bruce was divine.
“I guess he was a bad boy on certain sets, and came with a little reputation for being difficult, but we had so much fun with him,” she said of Willis, who suffers from frontotemporal dementia. “He was such a gent, and so game, and willing to be ridiculous. I just thought he was wonderful.”
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At the time of its release, “Death Becomes Her” was a box-office success, opening at No. 1 and earning over $12 million that weekend alone.
The movie went on to earn over $58.4 million domestically and $90.6 million internationally.
In 2024, the cult classic became a Broadway musical comedy.
