r/movies • u/Fun_Protection_6939 • 1d ago
Discussion What is the single greatest acting performance you have seen?
What is the single greatest acting performance you have seen?
It's got to be Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice for me. Such a heartbreaking and nuanced portrayal of loss and devastation, and doubly impressive because she had to learn two languages fluently and had to speak German with a Polish accent, when neither language was native to her.
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u/keeks85 1d ago
Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley