London: Actor-director Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt took to the stage to pay tribute to Meryl Streep at the Kennedy Center Honors.
The Oscar-winning actress received an accolade at the 34th annual ceremony in Washington along with singer Neil Diamond, actress Barbara Cook and saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
After a series of clips showing her stellar big screen career, Streep’s The Deer Hunter co-star De Niro said, “My first thought was, I was amazing in Deer Hunter. Meryl, you are the very best. I love you.” Hathaway, Blunt and Stanley Tucci then spoke about working with the actress on the set of The Devil Wears Prada, with Blunt saying, “In every scene, she’s actually doing two jobs. First, her own character, always so natural and second is stabilising the other actor who is having a nervous breakdown because they’re in a scene with Meryl Streep.” (PTI)
