Meryl Streep has a confession to make.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 star revealed one of her favorite pastimes on the Thursday, April 30, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! — and it’s giving Miranda Priestly.
Earlier on Thursday, Streep, 76, honored costar Stanley Tucci with a speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony and joked about their shared love of complaining.
Asked about her comments by host Jimmy Kimmel, Streep elaborated, “I referred to myself as the world’s greatest whiner. But that’s what Stanley and I bond on, because we both complain because we basically have nothing to complain about, let’s face it.”
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“But we do enjoy bitching about things, you know, everything,” the Oscar winner added. “Doesn’t everybody like to do that? It’s my hobby.”
Tucci, 65, and sister-in-law Emily Blunt were honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday ahead of the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 on Friday, May 1.
Streep paid tribute to Tucci’s acting and culinary talents during a speech at the ceremony but said that he is particularly gifted at kicking up a fuss.
“Your elegance and delight in just being alive is evident when you’re shaking a cocktail or rustling up dinner, but especially when you’re complaining,” the actress quipped. “A special relish … Stanley can really muster up a mighty grievance!”
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Streep added that Tucci rivals “the great Nora Ephron, also right up there — and me,” describing herself as the “world’s biggest whiner, which Disney can attest to.”
The actress heaped praise on Tucci, with whom she has costarred in The Devil Wears Prada franchise and 2009’s Julie & Julia, directed by Ephron.
“It’s impossible not to love Stanley Tucci — urbane, sly, funny, bitchy and generous and curious and so elegant,” she said.
“Stanley has an elegance to his heterosexuality — his undeniable heterosexuality — which is formidable,” Streep went on. “Not that heterosexuality is better than any other kind of sexuality. It’s just that elegance — real, unforced, natural, unstyled elegance — is sometimes harder for straight men.”
“I’ve known you longer as a friend than as a scene partner,” she added. “And we’ve been through some rough times together and some great times, and I love you deeply.”
“I’ve adored working with Stanley, and I’ve done it often, and I’m ready to go again,” Streep said, teasing another movie together.
Streep and Tucci reprise their roles as fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly and her trusted sidekick, Nigel Kipling, in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Anne Hathaway and Blunt also reprise their roles from the 2006 original film.
