“Too cerebral and over-reliant on technique.” Winner of 3 Oscars was Katharine Hepburn's “least favourite actress onscreen”

Katharine Hepburn is a cinema legend and winner of 4 Oscars, who had dozens of roles to her credit. There is no denying the fact that she made history and can be put among the best actresses without hesitation. This group also includes Meryl Streep, whom, as it turned out, Hepburn was not particularly fond of.

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However, this dislike was nothing personal, but only related to their profession. Despite being a phenomenon, Meryl Streep with her performances didn’t elicit sympathy from Hepburn, who accused her of being downright mechanical, as we could learn from the actress' biography, Kate Remembered, written by Scott Berg and published in 2003 (via Far Out Magazine).

Hepburn was said to think Streep was “too cerebral and over-reliant on technique.”

Hepburn got not only 4 Oscars, but also at one time a record 12 Academy Awards nominations. It's a record that in later years was broken by Streep now having 21 Oscar nominations to her credit.

Despite Hepburn's harsh words, Streep respectfully referred to Hepburn when she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, humbly admitting that there were many talented women in the film industry who should have received the award before her. And Hepburn was included in that group (via Stylist).

Whatever the actresses thought of themselves, it must be said that both are talented artists who have made major contributions to cinema.

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