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01of 13Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio on how “fantastic” Ariana Grande isNetflixIn a brief clip, Streep and DiCaprio gushed about their costar. “AndAriana Grande, how great is she?!” Streep said during a video interview withHits Radio UK. “She’s fantastic,” DiCaprio replied.

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Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio on how “fantastic” Ariana Grande is

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In a brief clip, Streep and DiCaprio gushed about their costar. “AndAriana Grande, how great is she?!” Streep said during a video interview withHits Radio UK. “She’s fantastic,” DiCaprio replied.

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Jennifer Lawrence on not wanting to “annoy” Meryl Streep

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“My biggest concern was I did not want to annoyMeryl Streep. That’s my worst nightmare. So, I will only speak if spoken to, and I will be the least annoying person in the room,“LawrencetoldVanity Fair.

Don’t Look UpdirectorAdam McKaytold the outlet that Lawrence wasn’t confident she’d keep her cool.

He said, “She just kept saying, ‘I’m going to be quiet. I won’t speak.’ Meryl Streep shows up and Jen comes over to me like she’s a 12-year-old and is like, ‘What do I say? What do I do?'”

03of 13Meryl Streep on Jonah Hill being funny, yet “annoying"netflix"Who’s annoying isJonah [Hill],” Streep jokingly toldAccess Hollywodon the red carpet for theDon’t Look Uppremiere.She added, “No. I love him, but he did make me laugh – and I don’t have a lot of control, so I would ruin a lot of takes.”

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Meryl Streep on Jonah Hill being funny, yet “annoying”

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“Who’s annoying isJonah [Hill],” Streep jokingly toldAccess Hollywodon the red carpet for theDon’t Look Uppremiere.

She added, “No. I love him, but he did make me laugh – and I don’t have a lot of control, so I would ruin a lot of takes.”

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Jonah Hill on calling Meryl Streep the “G.O.A.T.”

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Hill said onThe Tonight Show, “Meryl Streep’s actually cool, and she’s the best actor.” He added, “Meryl, to me, she is the G.O. A.T. She’s the greatest of all time.”

Hill explained, “Then, today, we’re doing a press conference and she’s like, ‘You know, and Jonah is so comfortable with me, he’s been calling me a goat all week.’ And I’m like, ‘What the f—?'”

05of 13Leonardo DiCaprio on Jonah Hill being a “comedic mastermind"netflix"Jonah and I got to do two films,“DiCaprioremindedE! Newson the red carpet at the premiere.The Oscar-winning actor said aboutfilming the movie, “Everyone broke character because he’s a comedic and improvisational mastermind. That’s my boyJonah Hill!”

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Leonardo DiCaprio on Jonah Hill being a “comedic mastermind”

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“Jonah and I got to do two films,“DiCaprioremindedE! Newson the red carpet at the premiere.

The Oscar-winning actor said aboutfilming the movie, “Everyone broke character because he’s a comedic and improvisational mastermind. That’s my boyJonah Hill!”

06of 13Jennifer Lawrence on breaking character because of Jonah HillnetflixLawrence said onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertthat working with Hill “is the worst,” explaining that it was “really hard filming with Jonah and just not ruining take after take laughing.”

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Jennifer Lawrence on breaking character because of Jonah Hill

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Lawrence said onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertthat working with Hill “is the worst,” explaining that it was “really hard filming with Jonah and just not ruining take after take laughing.”

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“I think I was more starstruck to be aroundGrandebecause our worlds don’t really collide with the musicians, and what she does is so different,” Lawrence toldEntertainment Tonight.

She added, “I’ve since reflected on my behavior withAriana Grande. I went full radio contest winner.”

08of 13Tyler Perry on Ariana Grande’s sense of humornetflix"She’s hysterical,“Perrytold Jimmy Fallon onThe Tonight Show. He joked, “If she wanted to give up that little singing thing that’s not going too well and just do comedy, she could.”

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Tyler Perry on Ariana Grande’s sense of humor

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“She’s hysterical,“Perrytold Jimmy Fallon onThe Tonight Show. He joked, “If she wanted to give up that little singing thing that’s not going too well and just do comedy, she could.”

09of 13Tyler Perry on the “mesmerizing” cast, especially Leonardo DiCaprionetflixOnThe Tonight Show, Perry recalled the first time he met the cast, saying, “When I first met them, they were all like, ‘Hey, I’m Leo,’ ‘I’m Jennifer,’ ‘I’m Ariana;’ and I’m like, ‘I know who all of you are!'“He added, “I had to keep reminding myself, ‘Don’t come out of character because you’re sitting here with these Oscar winners just stay in character.’ They were so mesmerizing in their performances.“Perry said of DiCaprio, “I don’t know if he was ad-libbing, but what he was doing, I believed. He was that damn good.”

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Tyler Perry on the “mesmerizing” cast, especially Leonardo DiCaprio

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OnThe Tonight Show, Perry recalled the first time he met the cast, saying, “When I first met them, they were all like, ‘Hey, I’m Leo,’ ‘I’m Jennifer,’ ‘I’m Ariana;’ and I’m like, ‘I know who all of you are!'”

He added, “I had to keep reminding myself, ‘Don’t come out of character because you’re sitting here with these Oscar winners just stay in character.’ They were so mesmerizing in their performances.”

Perry said of DiCaprio, “I don’t know if he was ad-libbing, but what he was doing, I believed. He was that damn good.”

10of 13Leonardo DiCaprio on Meryl Streep’s presence on setnetflix"Everyone was on their toes when Meryl walked in, as we should be,” DiCaprio toldAccess Hollywood.For DiCaprio, the encounter with Streep was a “reunion” because “around 25 to 30 years ago, [they] worked on a film together.“He justified the cast’s reaction to Streep’s presence on set saying, “Look, you get to work with the greatest living actor in the world, everyone’s on their toes, everyone’s prepared, and we’re just trying to keep up with her.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio on Meryl Streep’s presence on set

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“Everyone was on their toes when Meryl walked in, as we should be,” DiCaprio toldAccess Hollywood.

For DiCaprio, the encounter with Streep was a “reunion” because “around 25 to 30 years ago, [they] worked on a film together.”

He justified the cast’s reaction to Streep’s presence on set saying, “Look, you get to work with the greatest living actor in the world, everyone’s on their toes, everyone’s prepared, and we’re just trying to keep up with her.”

11of 13Leonardo DiCaprio on his first time working with Jennifer LawrencenetflixDiCaprio described Lawrence toVanity Fairas “one of the most talented actors working today,” adding, “Jen’s ability to improvise and be so in the moment at all times was amazing to witness.“Don’t Look Upmarks the first movie that the two stars have worked together.DiCaprio toldAccess Hollywood, “We both had immediate comradery, we got to talk to some amazing astronomers, and people in the scientific community, and understand their sense of frustration with issues like this.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio on his first time working with Jennifer Lawrence

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DiCaprio described Lawrence toVanity Fairas “one of the most talented actors working today,” adding, “Jen’s ability to improvise and be so in the moment at all times was amazing to witness.”

Don’t Look Upmarks the first movie that the two stars have worked together.

DiCaprio toldAccess Hollywood, “We both had immediate comradery, we got to talk to some amazing astronomers, and people in the scientific community, and understand their sense of frustration with issues like this.”

12of 13Meryl Streep on Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio’s actingnetflixStreep toldVanity Fair:“She is a bold and unselfconscious actress — someone whose gift is alive on her skin and in her being. In that, she is different from Leo, for whom the struggle is part of the job, who relishes wrestling with it, and whose work is serious and analytic and intense. She spins it out of the air in the room. I am sort of in awe of both of them.”

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Meryl Streep on Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting

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Streep toldVanity Fair:“She is a bold and unselfconscious actress — someone whose gift is alive on her skin and in her being. In that, she is different from Leo, for whom the struggle is part of the job, who relishes wrestling with it, and whose work is serious and analytic and intense. She spins it out of the air in the room. I am sort of in awe of both of them.”

13of 13Jennifer Lawrence on how Timothée Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio “drove [her] crazy"netflixLawrence said during an interview onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Well, Timothée, I was so excited, he’s such a talented actor.“The actress,who is pregnant with her first child, joked, “But in a two-shot, you know, I’m 31 and, I mean I wasn’t this fat but I’m fatter thanTimothée Chalamet. That was harrowing. It’s harrowing to see yourself…. Just us in those two-shots, it’s like, ‘Who’s that? Your coach?'“Lawrence also recalled filming a car scene with DiCaprio and Chalamet, whom she said “drove [her] crazy.” She added, “I don’t know. I just remember being in absolute misery that day. But they’re very nice.”

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Jennifer Lawrence on how Timothée Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio “drove [her] crazy”

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Lawrence said during an interview onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Well, Timothée, I was so excited, he’s such a talented actor.”

The actress,who is pregnant with her first child, joked, “But in a two-shot, you know, I’m 31 and, I mean I wasn’t this fat but I’m fatter thanTimothée Chalamet. That was harrowing. It’s harrowing to see yourself…. Just us in those two-shots, it’s like, ‘Who’s that? Your coach?'”

Lawrence also recalled filming a car scene with DiCaprio and Chalamet, whom she said “drove [her] crazy.” She added, “I don’t know. I just remember being in absolute misery that day. But they’re very nice.”

source: people.com