Meryl Streep is proving that after stepping back into the heels of one of the most iconic characters of the millennium, the devil hasn’t quite left her system. The Miranda Priestly ferocity is still coursing through her veins, and she is stirring up beef with Taylor Swift’s future husband, Travis Kelce.
On Wednesday’s episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcast New Heights, Jason Kelce informed Travis that he had been called out by Streep for no apparent reason in a promotional video for The Devil Wears Prada 2. Why on Earth would a Meryl Streep have beef with a Travis Kelce? Was she snubbed from the infamous invite list of the Swift-Kelce nuptials? Or perhaps displeased with the $33 martini he sells at his Kansas City steakhouse? Whatever it was, Jason tackled the rumors head-on: “Do you have beef with Meryl Streep?”
“Is there Meryl Streep beef?” Travis replied. “I hope she doesn’t have beef with me. That’s a powerful woman right there. I’m a fan of Meryl Streep. I don’t have any beef with her.” So, what exactly did Meryl say? Roll the clip.
“The hardest part about shooting in Milan was walking in stilettos on the cobblestones,” Streep said in the promo. “I’d like to see Travis Kelce do that.” Shots fired. (But…I would also like to see Travis Kelce do that.)
“Oh, Meryl, you have no idea how good I am at walking in heels, okay?” Travis replied, and once he gets his hands on some size 14 heels, the challenge is on.
“I wear Chelsea boots. Are those heels?” Travis asked. No. I’ll take one for Meryl, Anna Wintour, and the rest of the fashion community here, and be the first to say: Travis, throw those Chelsea boots away and/or set them on fire. Jason then clarified that the heels must be “the pointy kind,” i.e., stilettos.
“I’ll give credit where credit’s due. I don’t think I can do it, Meryl,” Travis said. “I’ll let you have it.” Phew. Beef = squashed.
This isn’t the first time Streep has come out to beef with athletes. In her 2017 acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, she called out the Trump administration’s rhetoric against immigrants, arguing that if you kick out all the foreigners, you will have nothing left to watch except “football and Mixed Martial Arts, which are not the arts.” She is dropping hints that she does not give a damn about sports. Same!
But, Meryl, babe, if you want an invite to that wedding, you have to make nice. Before you let him off the hook, just make sure he throws out those Chelsea boots. In the wise words of Miranda Priestly, that’s all.
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