European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Agazine Oscar winning actress meryl sleep during the film Long in Australia of her latest movie a cry in the  meryl Streep s latest accent actress adds aussie to her repertoire by Charles Chaplin los Angeles times. There is nothing Mie being slacked lot something you do superbly Well. It s Asil the. Hole i pne wore a terrible bore the grand  Jug another hit. The Check ered hag Only. A piece by cloth " meryl Stroop does accents docs Ihm so Well Ihal for a couple of Houison screen Lime in s hard to imagine Ihal she Ever talks any phor Way. The accents " Sophia s polish Lak Mesen s scandinavian Karen Silkwood s suit vagal among hem Are so unforced and . Hey Mem to mow from the marrow of. Her Bones ". They give her Hie character she says Tho Way a we. Or a Puli nose or specifies or a Board in if give another actor  qut i gut a Tol of Fucik Jot my accents/1 Streep said during a incl visit to los Angeles a Lew Days ago. It is morn exasperating than hurtful Lor her and she has no. Intention of changing although she added. Once a while 1 think it would to a Relief to play a housewife trying to raise Throo kids keep Fiir husband Happy and organize her neighbors to Light pesticides."". So Rock is is fact a  doing ail the above. Her  a 5 and 2. Her sculptor husband Don gun Imor is Happy and she is working hard to organize a Campaign against pesticides on Iho. Produce in inc local markets. California 15 quite Good about Hal she says come Clistil in  she has become a walking glossary of chemicals and their carcinogenic properties. Shehas also added anew. Australian accent to her repertoire and like the others it is so understated and natural that it s difficult to Bolive Sho was t born within sight of a Kangaroo or two.-./. The  is a cry in then Ghi which is based on the extraordinary True Story of Lindy Chamberlain who served More than 3 years in prison for he murder of an infant daughter Sho insisted had been carried off by. Nool the australian wild dogs called Dingo Only in mid september Scro Chamberlain and her husband a seven larday adventist minister malty acquitted on All the charges against them. She had Boon released irom prison earlier on compassionate. Grounds. His sentence As an accomplice had been suspended so he could care Lor the children including a daughter born just As his wite went to prison Thuro woo 350 speaking parts in Iho my Sloop says and i was the Only ringer Thornty Nan australian i was worried that All those actors would say. What s Idis girl doing here1. 1 he question n scorns Clear did not arise. I was trying to reproduce Iho a one person Speaks. I met Lind and spent an intense time with her. But to held the in citing sort 61 at Arm s length when be were shooting she was still a convict cd murderess even though she d been  whal fascinated so Rock was How the chamberlains perceived at Lisl simply As the victims of a Lomblo tragedy should so swiftly have come 1o to soon As deceivers filters possible partners in a ritual my incr perhaps an  related to i heir not Well understood religion. Whal was interesting to me As an incl Russ was Why was Sho convicted. What is it in inc Public Ihal wants to see its Blac Kcal fears played out the crowds something about the Way Sho behaved the Way she held herself the Way she Sot her face inc Way she appeared on television that changed the was of Polo left Strep fees. The couple s comforting Faith that Tho disappearance of their child was god s will incomprehensible As that might be looked less like. Resignation than indifference. The chamberlains did t have packagers or handlers. They did t seem to make an appropriate expression of grief although i Don t know what Ihal is frankly she was t seen to Grieve although she did and there Loro she was soon As guilty it was Iho kind of woman Sha wan. Holding Back being strong.". Tho Story became a press if cts and Iho no lonely Lur cd suspicions into certainties rumours into facts. Tho press indeed does not look wonderful in the film. But having helped to inks the mischief sleep says the press then helped Correct a miscarriage of Justice by keeping the Story alive during Tho months of Legal to and frying after Chamberlain went to prison. For sleep and he cast in was a rough swot. Including 10 Days of 122  at Alice Springs near ayes Rock whore the chamberlains were camping in 1980 when the child disappeared. I Haven t been so hot since 1 worked on Suffi Tooti in Texas. I was wearing a wig which was like a fur Hal. I covered Tho children in so level Sunlan lotion which they haled because in ran in their eyes when Hoy  there were several Hinds of heal actually. You usually Havo account lands looking Over your shoulders. To had th3 Law Tho press the government and the people who d Boon victimized ". The australians says sleep will hate me saying it bul they re very american so much of what they Sec on television is american. It seemed very familiar being Hora. I Houghl the Story was a caul Irwy tale for us. It has applications Here too. It plays on our Doe Posl Lears and it s horrific but it s a soaring thing As Well because Justice is served  says i really would love to play a housewife with environmental concerns but they Don t make movies about them i Don t go looking for parts with 1 accents bul i m drawn to what hits to in Iho solar plexus i need to engage on Ihal level to do roles that have Somo Lhing to say. The whole process of production will drive you mad if you Don t Havo that total  m interested in crawling into other people s skins seeing Iho world through their eyes explaining people who might otherwise seem incomprehensible it probably helps that i Don t try to impose anything of myscb."1the Paradox of the known performer the Star performer in Fae disappearing Inlo inc role is. Particularly remarkable with Sliech. The characters she has played Are not meryl Sloop she is none of the characters Sho has played. I be always Houghl of acting As that disappearing act always she says. At 81 thought f was Iho Virgin May. It May be the closest i be come. I love the aspect of pretend. Inc created reality. I m the kind of actor who aspires to be a transforming  she figures next to transform herself into Evita. In s Boon  she says .11 won t Start until october 1989. Allowing plenty of time Lor singing lessons. Her. Husband tells her. Kidding by it May to the first funny thing that she s done. She d fide to do a comedy As a matter. Rohac ,.a sophisticated comedy perhaps with the usually urbane and Willy Sam Noil who plays her Earnest humourless husband in a cry in the night i just Haven t gotten Many comedies. I m a sucker Lor the powerful Story. 1 could do the easy thing and not have to go and Hill rays cell each inic. Don t know Why i. Do but it s the Way f  tuesday november 22, 1988. The stars and stripes Page 13