I forgot how to act after lockdown: Meryl Streep

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Noted actress Meryl Streep opened up about how she temporarily forgot how to act while portraying the U.S. president at a political rally for writer-director Adam McKay's comedy "Don't Look Up".

"I found it really hard," Streep revealed in the course of EW's Around the Table chat with the actress, McKay, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, and Tyler Perry.

 "I didn't feel funny in the lockdown. When I would come in to shoot my stuff, [I'd] get out of the car and hadn't spoken to anybody in three weeks. [I'd] walk into the stadium in Worcester, put on the wig and the nails and the suit, and make a speech to all these people. I just lost it. I forgot how to act, I forgot what I was about. It sort of dismantles your humanity, to be isolated like that."

However, Streep swiftly recovered her acting mojo, at least according to Hill, who plays the actress' son in "Don't Look Up", and is full of praise for his co-star's comedic chops.

"Don't Look Up" is now streaming on Netflix.