Meryl Streep on hippos, sex scenes and almost losing her Oscar

Meryl Streep shared intimate anecdotes from her career at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, including falling in love when Robert Redford washed her hair and leaving her Oscar in the toilet. A long-standing critic of gender inequalities in Hollywood, she also said why she thinks there were so few good roles for women in the past…- ‘Out of Africa’ -Streep recalled the famous scene in which co-star Redford washed her hair in a river. “We had lions. They were imported from California and supposedly tame, but they were not… And we were shooting in the river and there were…