With Oscar fever reaching a crescendo, the Hollywood Madame Tussauds location unveiled a redecorated wax statue of Meryl Streep Thursday, with one small hitch - it didn't really look like the three-time Oscar-winner. The Streep statue was redressed in a gold gown the 67-year-old star wore at the Academy Awards in 2012, when she collected her third lifetime Oscar for her efforts in 2011's The Iron Lady (in which she played late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher). The New Jersey native has also collected gold statuettes for her performances in 1982's Sophie's Choice and 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer. She's nominated on Sunday for the best leading actress Oscar for her work in Florence Foster Jenkins, but odds-makers have her as a longshot to take home the gold, with La La Land's Emma Stone as the heavy favorite. Whether or not she comes up with the win, the star is already responsible for what's been the defining moment of film award season, when she criticized President Donald Trump in a six-minute speech at January's Golden Globes. While she didn't mention The Celebrity Apprentice host by name, she referred to his gesturing in a November 2015 speech referring to reporter Serge Kovaleski, who lives with arthrogryposis, a condition that restricts his control his arms. Streep said that 'the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter ... someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back.' The temperamental commander-in-chief shot back, calling the record-setting 20-time Oscar nominee 'one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood' and 'Hillary flunky who lost big.' He responded to her remarks on his treatment of Kovaleski: 'For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him......."groveling" when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!' The statue of Streep was repurposed from an earlier incarnation of the actress, and updated for film awards season. It's currently on display in the chain's Southern California, which features a number of cinematic icons immortalized in wax, including Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, Marlon Brando in The Godfather and Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands.
