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Within days, Streep and Cazale were sitting in the doctor’s office with Joe and Gail Papp. Papp was concerned enough to get Cazale an emergency appointment with his own doctor on the Upper East Side.
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They were the envy of the New York theater world - she the most naturally gifted actress in generations, he the most naturally gifted actor, legendary director Joe Papp their patron - until one day in May 1977.Ĭazale, who was in previews for “Agamemnon” uptown, had been feeling ill enough to miss performances. They were head-turners, but not because, ‘Wow, is she a beauty!’ ”Īs Schulman writes, “the romance moved as fast as John moved slow,” and they were soon living happily together in Cazale’s Tribeca loft. “They were lovely in their way, but it was a really quirky couple. “They were great to look at, because they were kind of funny-looking, both of them,” said the playwright Israel Horovitz. Cazale would take Streep to dinner in Little Italy, where restaurant owners, awed to have Fredo in the room, insisted they eat for free. Of the two, Cazale was the famous one, but they were still starving artists. “It was the specificity of him, and his sort of humanity and his curiosity about people, his compassion.” “He wasn’t like anybody I’d ever met,” she said later. In looks and manner, Cazale was completely foreign to the young Streep. “Once he was in that play,” actor Marvin Starkman said, “the only thing he talked about was her.” Streep and Cazale met in 1976 on Shakespeare in the Park’s “Measure for Measure” - it was love in the first scene. Then finally smoke it.”Īnd then there were his unusual looks, so perfect for the misfits of ’70s cinema: attenuated frame, high forehead, prominent nose. Pacino said a simple dinner with Cazale would become epic: “I mean, you’d be done - washed, finished and in bed - before he got halfway through his meal. He was known among directors as “20 Questions,” because he wanted detailed back story on all his characters. But he was meticulous, sometimes maddeningly so.” “Time moved differently for John Cazale,” Schulman writes. But my God, it’s there - every shot of him.” I don’t know where it came from I don’t believe in invading the privacy of the actors I work with or getting into their heads. “One of the things I loved about the casting of John Cazale,” said “Dog Day” director Sidney Lumet, “was that he had a tremendous sadness about him. He was Fredo in “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II,” and had lead roles in “The Conversation” and “Dog Day Afternoon.” Of the five movies he starred in, all would be nominated for Best Picture, and three would win. By then, Cazale was not quite a star - he lacked that ephemeral quality - but he was regarded, in the industry, as a rare talent, in demand among the great directors of the era. Streep and Cazale met in 1976, when they were cast opposite each other in “Measure for Measure” in Central Park. “All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life. “I learned more about acting from John than anybody,” Al Pacino has said. He was 14 years her senior and a legend among his peers. She was living in a loft on Franklin Street with her boyfriend, actor John Cazale. Streep was 29 years old, a gosling in the New York theater world.
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It was instrumental in shaping who she was as a person and an actor.” “She doesn’t talk about it much,” says Michael Schulman, who explores this time in his new biography “Her Again.” “But that year was so wildly eventful and dramatic in her life. She was also about to lose the love of her life. In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation.