Veteran Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has come to Meryl Streep’s defence by saying her Golden Globes speech attacking US President-elect Donald Trump was “great”.
The multiple Oscar-winner wrote a letter of support to his The Deer Hunter co-star following the controversy after her attack on Trump on Sunday. Streep had said that "when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose".
De Niro wrote:
What you said was great. It needed to be said, and you said it beautifully. I have so much respect for you that you did it while the world was celebrating your achievements. I share your sentiments about punks and bullies. Enough is enough.
De Niro and Streep have co-starred in four films: The Deer Hunter, Falling in Love, Marvin's Room and First Man.
Besides endorsing Hillary Clinton for US President, Streep has been aligned with outgoing President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and even impersonated Trump at a gala in New York’s Central Park. De Niro, for his part, made a splash during this campaign season in a viral video, calling Trump "a pig", ''an idiot" and "a mutt, who doesn't know what he's talking about".
De Niro wasn’t the only one to come to Streep’s defence. Ben Affleck and Barbra Streisand have backed the Oscar winner, and Michael Keaton, who was also at the Globes on Sunday, said he got in touch with her to express his support.
"I emailed Meryl Streep," Keaton said in an interview Wednesday while promoting The Founder. ''And I just said two words — 'beautiful thing'. She emailed back real quick that she's getting a little beat-up."
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