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"  Great faces are required when inhabiting characters cloaked in Catholic habits. That&amp;#039;s how Meryl Streep and Amy Adams came to be cast as nuns in Doubt, John Patrick Shanley&amp;#039;s film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning drama in which Sister Aloysius (Streep) accuses Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of molesting an altar boy. When in Doubt, the play&amp;#039;s the thing, and the thing to play is the question\u2014did he or didn&amp;#039;t he? The answer is left to the audience. &amp;quot;People will sit in very different seats, depending on what they&amp;#039;ve lived through,&amp;quot; Streep says. &amp;quot;I firmly believe what Tom Stoppard said in The Real Thing, something like, `Public positions are a product of personal pain.&amp;#039; Something like that\u2014it doesn&amp;#039;t have that many p&amp;#039;s in it,&amp;quot; she laughs, &amp;quot;but that&amp;#039;s how I remember it.&amp;quot; For her part, Adams sees Sister James as a na\u00EFf who is &amp;quot;watching these two powerful people and having to make her own decision,&amp;quot; and who does not leave their battlefield unscathed. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m always attracted to innocence and the loss of it,&amp;quot; Adams says. Streep, meanwhile, is drawn to those &amp;quot;who stake their claim to what they think is right. They&amp;#039;re brave, and they risk being foolish or wrong.&amp;quot; Come April, you&amp;#039;ll catch both women in the kitchen in Nora Ephron&amp;#039;s Julie &amp;amp;amp; Julia, based on the best-seller wherein a woman cooks her way through Julia Child&amp;#039;s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The film was another good get for Adams, who, despite starring in hits like Junebug and Enchanted, still has to fight for &amp;quot;everything, always!&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Not in a gross, aggressive way, but assertively. When I feel possessive after closing a script, it&amp;#039;s like, I have to play her! The parts you really want\u2014you&amp;#039;re not the only one that wants them.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s room for everybody,&amp;quot; says Streep, a veteran of more than 40 films and counting. &amp;quot;There are so many women&amp;#039;s lives to portray, so many people out there just panting to have their stories told. There just needs to be more things about women, and less stupid stuff for women of all ages.&amp;quot; How does the master expressionist feel when reading the oft-written comparison: So and so is the next Meryl Streep? The one and only replies: &amp;quot;Lazy journalism. No more to be said. Lazy.&amp;quot; You should see her expression now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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