Meryl Streep has been accused of wearing “blackface” in her new Netflix film The Laundromat.
For The Film Bite, film critic Awais Irfan criticised the film’s “unnecessary and bizarre choices”, adding as an example: “Meryl Streep does blackface.”
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film revolves around the discovery of the Panama Papers and a network of global corruption in 2015.
Streep plays a white American widow who investigates the murky financial arrangements of her late husband.