Overview
- Meryl Streep grew emotional during France's Journal de 20 heures when host Laurent Delahousse played a surprise video from Jennifer Lejeune.
- Streep was on the newscast with Stanley Tucci to promote the upcoming Devil Wears Prada sequel when she realized the message was from her on-screen daughter in the 1982 film.
- Lejeune praised Streep in the clip, calling her her “favorite mother,” and said their bond on set shaped the powerful performances.
- Streep, clutching her chest, asked “That’s the child?” then said “Oh my God, that’s amazing,” and thanked the host for what she called “a gift.”
- Reports from the broadcast said Lejeune now lives in Paris, later married a French national, and works in finance, and she recalled the film’s harrowing shoot and repeated takes.