Let Them Talk trailer follows Meryl Streep as a famous author who tries to connect with old friends

Meryl Streep plays an unorthodox author who tries to reconnect with three old friends and her nephew in the trailer for Let Them Talk.

Steven Soderbergh returns to the helm to direct this comedy, from a script by Deborah Eisenberg, who makes her feature writing debut.

The comedy, which also stars Candace Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Gemma Chan and Lucas Hedges, debuts on HBO Max on December 10.

Trailer: Meryl Streep plays an unorthodox author who tries to reconnect with three old friends and her nephew in the trailer for Let Them Talk

Comedy: Steven Soderbergh returns to the helm to direct this comedy, from a script by Deborah Eisenberg, who makes her feature writing debut

Comedy: Steven Soderbergh returns to the helm to direct this comedy, from a script by Deborah Eisenberg, who makes her feature writing debut

The trailer begins with a shot of Streep’s character, Alice, as Gemma Chan’s character talks about her long-awaited new manuscript.

‘Alice has a manuscript that’s due really soon. Everyone at the agency is getting a bit nervous,’ she tells Alice’s nephew, played by Lucas Hedges.

We see Alice trying to organize various pieces of paper on the floor, as Chan’s character asks, ‘I haven’t seen a manuscript. Have you seen a manuscript?’ though the nephew has not.  

Alice: The trailer begins with a shot of Streep's character, Alice, as Gemma Chan's character talks about her long-awaited new manuscript

Alice: The trailer begins with a shot of Streep’s character, Alice, as Gemma Chan’s character talks about her long-awaited new manuscript

Nervous: 'Alice has a manuscript that's due really soon. Everyone at the agency is getting a bit nervous,' she tells Alice's nephew, played by Lucas Hedges.

Nervous: ‘Alice has a manuscript that’s due really soon. Everyone at the agency is getting a bit nervous,’ she tells Alice’s nephew, played by Lucas Hedges.

Organize: We see Alice trying to organize various pieces of paper on the floor, as Chan's character asks, 'I haven't seen a manuscript. Have you seen a manuscript?' though the nephew has not

Organize: We see Alice trying to organize various pieces of paper on the floor, as Chan’s character asks, ‘I haven’t seen a manuscript. Have you seen a manuscript?’ though the nephew has not

Chan’s character adds in another conversation that Alice, ‘has been hinting for years now that she’s revisiting one of her characters.

So in effort to learn more about the manuscript, she booked a cruise for Alice with her two friends (Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest) and her nephew.

Alice proposes a toast to picking up things where they left off, and to ‘reconnecting the gang of three we used to be.’   

Revisiting: Chan's character adds in another conversation that Alice, 'has been hinting for years now that she's revisiting one of her characters

Revisiting: Chan’s character adds in another conversation that Alice, ‘has been hinting for years now that she’s revisiting one of her characters

Nephew and friends: So in effort to learn more about the manuscript, she booked a cruise for Alice with her two friends (Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest) and her nephew

Nephew and friends: So in effort to learn more about the manuscript, she booked a cruise for Alice with her two friends (Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest) and her nephew

Alice breaks down her schedule on the cruise, saying she’s going to work on her manuscript then go for a swim at 3, dinner at 7 and then back up to work on the book.

Alice’s nephew Tyler is talking to Weist’s character when he says it feels like he’s talking to someone but he can’t find the word, as she adds, ‘Dinosaurs,’ which causes him to laugh.

Weist’s character is talking to Bergen’s character, who believes Alice’s book, ‘determined’ her whole life.

Dinosaurs: Alice's nephew Tyler is talking to Weist's character when he says it feels like he's talking to someone but he can't find the word, as she adds, 'Dinosaurs,' which causes him to laugh

Dinosaurs: Alice’s nephew Tyler is talking to Weist’s character when he says it feels like he’s talking to someone but he can’t find the word, as she adds, ‘Dinosaurs,’ which causes him to laugh

She explains, ‘The consequences of my life on her actions were unacceptable,’ while Alice later asks her to have a drink and she declines abruptly.

Bergen’s character tells Alice, ‘I just don’t know who you are anymore. Does anybody trust you?’ as Alice adds, ‘We really lost each other.’

Alice explains over another dinner that she has ‘hit a wall’ with her writing, as Bergen’s character suggests she ‘take a breather.’

Unacceptable: She explains, 'The consequences of my life on her actions were unacceptable,' while Alice later asks her to have a drink and she declines abruptly

Unacceptable: She explains, ‘The consequences of my life on her actions were unacceptable,’ while Alice later asks her to have a drink and she declines abruptly

Breather: Alice explains over another dinner that she has 'hit a wall' with her writing, as Bergen's character suggests she 'take a breather'

Breather: Alice explains over another dinner that she has ‘hit a wall’ with her writing, as Bergen’s character suggests she ‘take a breather’

Alice is then telling an audience at a lecture of some sort that the ‘sources a writer uses are very close to home.’

Alice also tells her friends that, ‘Whatever character I write about is essentially about me, though Weist’s character thinks, ‘that’s a little pompous.

The trailer comes to an end as Alice climbs in bed to reflect as she asks herself, ‘Who is the real you?’ 

Close to home: Alice is then telling an audience at a lecture of some sort that the 'sources a writer uses are very close to home'

Close to home: Alice is then telling an audience at a lecture of some sort that the ‘sources a writer uses are very close to home’

Real you: The trailer comes to an end as Alice climbs in bed to reflect as she asks herself, 'Who is the real you?'

Real you: The trailer comes to an end as Alice climbs in bed to reflect as she asks herself, ‘Who is the real you?’

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