Last night’s seven-second delay censors were no doubt poised to bleep out any banned words uttered by Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais. They were, however, probably surprised to find that iconic actress Meryl Streep actually needed the most censoring of the night.
While accepting the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” Streep realized upon ascending the stage that she had forgotten her reading glasses.
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“Oh (bleep) my glasses, I forgot my glasses” she said, prompting a several seconds long silence in the broadcast as the actress’ lips continued to move. Apparently, Streep accidentally repeated the curse word.
“OK, I’m gonna have to remember my speech,” she said, her voice once again audible. She then launched into a litany of thank-yous, culminating her speech saying, “I’d like to thank my agent, Kevin Huvane, and god, Harvey Weinstein. The punisher. Old Testament, I guess.'”
Backstage, Streep seemed stunned that she had lobbed two s-bombs on network television.
“I said [it] and I don’t normally — well, I do normally say that, but I don’t say it on TV,” she explained to “Access Hollywood.” “I had everybody’s name that I wanted to mention and so as a result, I forgot. I’m apoplectic, but what are you gonna do? I’ll have to now email everybody and that’s just gonna take days.”