How Old Was Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her

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Let’s talk about the staircase scene. Meryl, at 43, is thrown down a flight of stairs by Bruce Willis. She lands with her neck bent at an angle that would make an owl jealous. Her head is literally facing her own backside, and she screams at Goldie Hawn: "You look like a baboon's butt!"

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Now, ask yourself: how many 43-year-old actors would do that? None. Zero. They’d hire a stunt double and stay in their trailer. Not Meryl. She insisted on doing the actual head-twist using a bizarre mirror trick, because she refused to let a stuntwoman have all the fun. That’s the energy of someone who knows that 43 is not old—it’s unbreakable.

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Here’s a surprising fact: Goldie Hawn, who plays her rival, was forty-six during filming. So the movie about being "too old" starred two actresses in their mid-forties, which in 1992 was a radical act. Today, that’s just called "Tuesday." But back then, the producers probably sweated bullets thinking, "Will anyone believe a 43-year-old can be this fabulously insane?"

Yes. The answer was yes. The film made $149 million worldwide. That’s a lot of magic potion money. And Meryl, at 43, became the poster child for age being a state of mind—or a state of liquid nitrogen, if you survive a fall down the stairs.