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Streep plays the heiress who was convinced of her vocal
talents and went on to put on a show at Carnegie Hall in 1944.
British actor Hugh Grant portrays her husband and manager St
Clair Bayfield, who seeks to keep the truth about her lack of
singing ability from her.
"Well it's a great story. It's about a real-life person who
lived in the first part of the 20th century in New York, a
socialite who gave a lot of money away to the arts, but her
dream was to be a singer," Street said at the film's premiere in
London on Tuesday night.
"And with the love of her husband, she was able to believe that
she was a singer. But she was a true amateur, she did what she
did for the pure love of it. And that's sort of what's beautiful
about her."
Streep, 66, has sung before in movies including "Mamma Mia" and
"Into the Woods", but this role required her to hide her
capabilities.
"What was sort of wonderful about her was how close she came to
being good, and when it went off, that's when it got sort of
glorious and funny," she said.
"But it was the attempt, the sort of yearning for it to be good
that is the part that's so joyous for me and was fun to do."
"Florence Foster Jenkins" opens in the UK on May 6 and in U.S.
cinemas in August.
(Reporting by Sara Hemrajani; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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