We cannot “believe” how amazing they give the impression of being.
Meryl Streep and her best friend Cher dazzled on Monday night at the iHeart Radio Music Awards in outfits reminiscent of the ones the couple wore to the premiere of their film “Silkwood” in 1983.
Photos obtained by The Post show Streep, 74, in a white Lanvin dress, while the 77-year-old “The Shoop Shoop Song” hitmaker is wearing a black top with chrome panels and matching pants.
The duo’s outfit closely resembles – if only by accident – the one they wore at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles.
“Silkwood,” nominated for five Academy Awards, tells the story of Karen Silkwood (Streep), a nuclear power plant employee who becomes a union activist after becoming concerned about safety practices at the plants.
Streep is joined in the film by Kurt Russell, Cher and Craig T. Nelson.
The star of “Sophie’s Choice.” appeared mid-show at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to introduce her longtime friend and winner of this 12 months’s Icon Award.
“In 1965, I was a 14-year-old high school freshman in Burnsville, New Jersey,” Streep began to handle the screaming crowd. “I walked two miles to school every day and back then we didn’t have headphones, phones, Walkmans or anything else. We just had songs that we had in our heads and our steps created the rhythm that we walked to.”
“And the song I had in my head in 1965 was a number one hit,” the actress continued. “And that was it [‘I Got You Babe’]”
Streep joked that at the time she thought Cher, who was 17 when the hit was released, was “really old”.
“She could have been a high school graduate,” said the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress. “And now we’re both seniors.”
“Let’s zoom in on Christmas past, OK, that Cher girl has another number-one hit,” Streep continued, referring to the “DJ Play a Christmas Song” hitmaker.
“She’s 77 and it doesn’t seem that old to me now,” Streep, who worked with Cher on the 2018 hit film “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” he laughed, before claiming that the singer is “the only woman in U.S. history” to have had a No. 1 hit “in each of the last seven decades.”
The program “Mamma Mia!” The star believed Cher’s success was because of her “giant heart” and how she “leads with her heart.”
“When I first met her 40 years ago, when we were making a movie about an activist called ‘Silkwood,'” Streep said to thunderous applause. “And in the video, we were holding each other tight and swinging on a swing on the porch of a little house in Sherman, Texas, on an October night.”
“And I he sang her a lullaby but all I could think of was that we were going back and forth listening to ‘I Got You Babe,'” Streep recalled.
After a montage showcasing all of the singer’s accomplishments, Cher herself took the stage with EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson for a charming performance of her two biggest hits: “If I Could Turn Back Time” and “Believe”.
“Meryl, Jennifer, I want to thank you,” the icon began after accepting the trophy from Streep and joking that she’s been wearing the same pair of pants for over 40 years.
“I feel lucky that I have people who have been with me all these years,” Cher continued, adding that she had “been depressed and broken many times.”
“I never gave up on my dreams,” she continued. “I love standing on this stage and it’s kind of my dream. I’m standing there listening to music and suddenly this voice comes out of my body and people seem to like it.”
“So from my experience, I want to tell you that you have a dream and you don’t give up on it no matter what happens,” she concluded. “Because I know from my own experience that if you have a dream and you stick to it, you will have a great life and it will come true.”
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