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The acclaimed actress raved about 'A Star Is Born' and other awards hopefuls when she joined Stephen Colbert for the 'Late Show' host's annual Montclair Film fundraiser.

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00:00Academy Award winner Meryl Streep sat down with Stephen Colbert earlier this month for

00:04his annual onstage conversation to raise money for Montclair Film, where they discussed,

00:08among other things, President Donald Trump. After Streep criticized Trump during her

00:12Cecil B. DeMille acceptance speech at the 2017 Golden Globes for seemingly mocking a

00:17disabled reporter, Trump retorted via Twitter that he thought Streep was one of the most

00:21overrated actresses in Hollywood. When asked by Colbert how she felt about having a

00:25president who is indifferent to empathy, Streep replied with a sobering answer,

00:29I'm scared. I'm scared by him, by his possibility, she said, and I do empathize with him. I can't

00:34imagine what his 3 a.m. is like. There's a gathering storm. Everyone feels it. He feels it.

00:39His children are in jeopardy and I feel that. I think, what if my children were in jeopardy? I

00:43would do anything, anything to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That's what I

00:47think. The conversation also had plenty of moments of levity as the award-winning actress teased her

00:52role in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns, and shared some of her favorite recent movie

00:56releases, such as A Star is Born. Streep enthused that nobody but Lady Gaga could have

01:01played Ali in Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, and also raved about the actor's

01:05approach to helming a feature film.

01:06It's so breezily shot and it's so self-assured, she said. It's not actually shot. Some actors who

01:12make the transition to directing, they give the actors too much air. They don't cut as

01:16brutally as you need in order to move the story. To them, the character is more

01:19interesting than the forward movement of the story, the narrative. The movie is the

01:23thing. You're helping, but the movie has to keep going. And Bradley? He gave himself the

01:27stuff he needed, and then he'd move off. Kept it moving. Streep also took the

01:31opportunity to plug her own work, recommending that the audience goes to see

01:35the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns, in which she plays Poppins' cousin.

01:38I'm very screwed up, a very screwed up character, Streep said of her role as Topsy.

01:42But she's very tolerant of me, and she needs something from me, so of course she's nice to me.

01:47It's fun. The movie is just great. I don't say this about all my movies, but this is not my

01:52movie. This is Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda. This movie is so great. These

01:55children are beautiful. It's like a tiny little gift to America at Christmas.

01:59To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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