We will’t “Imagine” how wonderful they appear.
Meryl Streep and her finest pal Cher dazzled Monday night time on the iHeart Radio Music Awards in outfits harking back to these the pair wore to the premiere of their movie “Silkwood” in 1983.
Images obtained by The Submit present Streep, 74, in a white Lanvin gown whereas the “The Shoop Shoop Tune” hitmaker, 77, dons a chrome-encrusted black prime with matching pants.
The duo’s outfits enormously recall — if solely accidentally — those worn by the pair in the course of the movie’s Los Angeles premiere.
“Silkwood,” which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, tells the story of Karen Silkwood (Streep), a nuclear facility employee, who turns into a union activist after she turns into involved with the vegetation security practices.
Streep is joined within the movie by Kurt Russell, Cher and Craig T. Nelson.
The “Sophie’s Selection” star appeared mid-show on the Dolby Theater in LA to introduce her longtime pal and recipient of this yr’s Icon award.
“Again in 1965, I used to be a 14-year-old freshman in highschool in Burnsville, New Jersey,” Streep started to a screaming crowd. “I walked two miles to high school daily and again then we didn’t have earbuds or telephones or earphones or Walkman or something. We simply had the songs that we carried in our heads and our footsteps made the beats that we walked to.”
“And the music that I carried in my head in 1965 was the primary hit,” the actress continued. “And it was [‘I Got You Babe’].”
Streep joked that on the time she thought Cher, who was 17 when the hit was launched, was “actually previous.”
“She might have been a senior,” the “Satan Wears Prada” actress acknowledged. “And now we each are seniors.”
“Zoom forward to this previous Christmas okay, that lady Cher has one other primary hit,” continued Streep, referring to the hitmaker “DJ Play a Christmas Tune.”
“She’s 77 years previous and that doesn’t truly really feel that previous to me now,” Streep — who labored with Cher on the 2018 hit movie “Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more” — laughed earlier than stating the songstress is the “solely lady in US historical past” to have a No. 1 hit “in each one of many final seven a long time.”
The “Mamma Mia!” star believed Cher’s success got here from her “large coronary heart” and the way “she leads together with her coronary heart.”
“Once I first met her 40 years in the past, once we made a movie about an activist referred to as ‘Silkwood,’ mentioned Streep to tumultuous applause. “And within the film we we held on to one another and we rocked on his porch swing on a bit of home in Sherman, Texas on an October night time.”
“And I sang her a lullaby however all I might consider is we’re going backwards and forwards was ‘I Bought You Babe,” Streep reminisced.
After a montage that includes all the singer’s achievements, Cher herself took the stage alongside EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson for a rousing efficiency of her two best hits: “If I Might Flip Again Time” and “Imagine.”
“Meryl, Jennifer I need to thanks,” the icon started after taking the trophy from Streep and cracking a joke about how she has worn the identical pair of pants for over 40 years.
“I really feel so fortunate to have individuals who have stayed with me for all these years,” Cher continued, including that she had been “down and out so many instances.”
“I by no means gave up my dream,” she continued. “I like standing on this stage and that is kinda my dream and I stand there and the music play and impulsively, out of my physique comes this voice and other people appear to love it.”
“So, what I need to inform you from my expertise is have a dream and don’t give it up it doesn’t matter what occurs,” she concluded. “As a result of I do know, from my very own experiences, if in case you have a dream and also you keep it up you should have a beautiful life and it’ll come true.”