Meryl Streep is flexing her musical chops. After mastering the tricky Stephen Sondheim melodies of Disney’s Into the Woods, the three-time Oscar winner is now hard at work learning to play the guitar for her next project, the Diablo Cody-penned Ricki and the Flash. In it, Streep plays a struggling rocker who attempts to reconcile with her neglected kids, one of whom is played by Streep’s real-life daughter, Mamie Gummer. Band boot camp comes courtesy of director Jonathan Demme, who insists all the film’s songs be performed live. Cody tells The Hollywood Reporter “Everything you hear, the band has to play and Meryl has to play.”
