Mamie Gummer Dishes On Working With Mom Meryl Streep In ‘Ricki And The Flash’


Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep’s 32-year-old daughter, is dishing on what it’s like working with her award-winning mother. This is the third time the mother-daughter duo worked together in a movie, but it’s their most challenging project together to date.

When asked by ET Online on the greatest challenge working with Meryl Streep, Mamie answered, “She had a much larger dressing room than I did.” Joking aside, Gummer said that her character’s lines in the film were difficult for her, as she didn’t want to hurt her mother.

In Ricki and the Flash, Streep plays rocker Ricki, who goes home to her family after leaving them in hopes of being a rockstar. Mamie Gummer, who plays Ricki’s daughter Julie, resents her mother for leaving the family for her career and is also devastated after her husband leaves her for another woman. There are some confrontations between the two, and that was the most difficult for Mamie Gummer.

“I was nervous about it, leading up to filming it. She was fine. I think she was pleased actually. It was funny because I tear into her and when we called cut there was this big grin on her face.”

Though there’s a struggle between Mamie Gummer and Meryl’s characters in the movie, the mother-daughter relationship is far from what they have in real life. Perhaps that’s what makes it harder for Mamie.

“There was no point in my life that I felt abandoned. My mom worked really hard, and I know sacrificed on both ends, but to really maintain a pretty fair balance, and we were always the priority.”

Meryl also had praises for her Mamie. In a report by People, the Oscar-winning actress only had good things to say about Mamie.

“She’s brave and fearless and funny and free. She’s a free talent. It doesn’t have any cover up – she’s the real deal.”

When Meryl guested at the TODAY show, she also said that Mamie enjoyed railing at her, but she doesn’t take it personally, as it’s all about acting.

“We are very close. And she is nothing like Julie, and I am really nothing like Ricki. It’s just acting.”

It seems like Mamie Gummer and Meryl Streep only have good things to say about each other. Hopefully, Ricki and the Flash won’t be their last collaboration.

In May, the Inquisitr reported that Ricki and the Flash could be another Oscar nod for Streep. Is Mamie Gummer following in the footsteps of her mother as an Oscar winner?

Ricki and the Flash is slated to be released in theaters on August 7.


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