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Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier

Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier

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Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor with the most Oscar nominations in history, spoke with Terry Gross in 2012 about playing Margaret Thatcher. And Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win best actor, in 2000 talked about how the radio helped him learn an accent for auditions.

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Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier

Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier