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Meryl Proves Her Awesomeness Yet Again

If you needed any more proof of just how badass Meryl Streep is, it looks like it's your lucky day: During a panel on Monday, Meryl Streep discussed August: Osage County , before she proceeded to stop herself in the middle of a PR-friendly answer to instead say: "Oh, fuck, I’m just going to say what I think because I usually don’t, honestly. We’re in show business and we’re nice and there’s Twitter."

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After that, Streep proceeded to reveal that she actually "enjoyed" taking on the cold, rough character of Violet Weston in the film, which is based off of the award-winning play of the same name by Tracy Letts. "There was a great liberation in that character...and there was a frustration in that character of a certain generation of women who had so many avenues shut off," Streep explained.

"She was, probably, great looking, witty, smart, ambitious as hell [in her younger days] — the kind of woman who puts it all in the kids and then the kids inevitably are a disappointment. Because they don’t grow up to be what you wanted to be yourself." Sure enough, the character has been labeled cruel: The New York Times has commented that Streep's performance "may scare her fans," and that poster of Streep getting into a throwdown with Julia Roberts, who plays her daughter, is telling.

Interestingly enough, Streep also commented that she drew from her own background to embody the character of Violet: "It’s something that was already in my body because I was raised by parents who lived in the Depression and were, well my dad [was], very poor. You’re raised in a certain way, you hear these words like 'you have no idea how lucky you are.' [...] You have that in the back of your mind when Violet stands up at the table and says, 'You people had everything given to you.'"

August: Osage County is set to hit theaters on Dec. 25, Christmas day.