Meryl Streep's Facial Reactions at the U.S. Open Have Spawned the Best Memes
Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning face has just created a whole new batch of memes. After becoming immortalized in the hallowed halls of meme history for cheering on Debbie Reynolds at the 2015 SAG Awards (a moment she re-created at the 2018 Oscars), not to mention the countless Miranda Priestly GIFs that rule Twitter with an impeccablymanicured fist, the iconic actress has once again spawned another meme—this time from the U.S. Open.
According to Time, it all went down during the men’s final on Sunday between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro. The cameras zoomed in on Streep’s face during their super-intense match, and the results are absolutely priceless. ESPN and SB Nation described it best: Gasping with the suspense of it all, hands pressed against her cheeks, she was pretty much the IRL embodiment of the scream emoji (?). Naturally, the Internet couldn’t get enough, and it pretty much took over Twitter for the duration of the match. (According to HuffPost, Streep soon became aware of herself becoming a meme in real time, and cracked open a cold one just for the cameras.)
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Below, here are some of the best memes created from Streep’s reactions:
https://twitter.com/evamariestreep/status/1038913172483330050
https://twitter.com/christophclarey/status/1038912058362880000
Remarkably, this isn’t the only Streep meme from this year, or even over the past month. Back in August a picture from the Big Little Lies season two set took the Internet by storm. Truly a work of art, it features Reese Witherspoon (in character as Madeline Martha Mackenzie) tossing a massive ice cream cone at Streep (who’s playing Perry’s mother). Oh, Meryl. Never stop.
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