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TIL in 2014 Meryl Streep attacked Walt Disney for being “a bigot” while presenting the Best Actress award to Emma Thompson for “Saving Mr. Banks”, a Disney film about Walt Disney. Streep referenced a rejection letter in 1938 from Disney informing a female applicant that “girls are not considered”.

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