 How did Meryl Streep prepare for the role of Roberta?
A view of nature that some would call "tree-hugging" doesn't feel softheaded when the trees are rendered in such brilliant and robust detail. According to the New York Times , Toy Story animators screened reels of his work when their imaginations flagged, and writers for Star Trek named an alien species after one of his features. The movie has a scope that makes Hollywood's homiletic, follow-your-dream fables look even more solipsistic. It's the beginning of what Bill McKibben called "the end of nature"--that is, when nature became no longer an autonomous, self-regulating force but one touched (and, in Miyazaki's view, poisoned) by human industry.
 She learned to play the violin without any former instrument training.
 She learned to play the violin without any former instrument training.  She began to act very helplessly and feeble around the rest of the cast.  She is a method actor and became very vulnerable.  She made herself look dumpy and thick-waisted.