How Mamie Gummer Held Her Own Acting With Her Mother, Meryl Streep1 min read

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The way Mamie Gummer tells it, there could be no other way — she was always going to play Meryl Streep’s daughter Julie in Jonathan Demme’s new film, “Ricki and the Flash.” It was an easy fit, really, because Gummer just so happens to be Streep’s daughter off-screen, too.

There’s no doubting the pair’s relationship — Gummer is the spitting image of her mother, and she speaks in the same calm and thoughtful tone that Streep often uses — but it wasn’t some kind of gimmick, because Gummer doesn’t just hold her own against her mom in the film; she steals the show.

In the Diablo Cody-penned dramedy (with generous dashes of musical elements), Streep plays the rocking Ricki, a middle-aged cover band chanteuse who left her family behind to pursue her on-stage dreams — a plan that didn’t really work out for any of them. When her ex-husband (Kevin Kline) requests that Ricki return to Indianapolis to help heal up their recently heartbroken daughter Julie (Gummer), Ricki doesn’t really have a choice.

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