It appears Meryl Streep has gone full method for her latest role as Emmeline Pankhurst in upcoming movie Suffragette this week, deciding to write a letter to every single member of Congress – that’s 535 letters – imploring them to revive the Equal Rights Amendement (ERA), which would prohibit discrimination against women and girls under the law.
Written in 1920 shortly after women in the US got the vote, the Amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but never gained the ratification needed to enter the Constitution, and despite several attempts to resurrect it, it has not been touched since 1982. However, if Streep can wield the kind of power over Congress that Taylor Swift arguably can over Apple, then maybe that’s all set to change.