Meryl Streep to Lend Her Voice to Apple Animated Short Film

Meryl Streep is getting animated: The Oscar-winner will lend her voice to a short illustrated film celebrating the Earth. Apple TV Plus said Friday Streep will join Chris O’Dowd, Jacob Tremblay and Ruth Negga to give life to the Oliver Jeffers' picture book “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth." The 36-minute film will premier on the streaming service April 17. Streep will narrate. She no stranger to lending her voice to films, having done so in “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence.”