Practically perfect: Meryl Streep to play Mary Poppins' cousin in Disney sequel

Reuniting with Emily Blunt, the actor will play Topsy Tartlet, a supporting role who didn’t feature in the 1964 Julie Andrews version of PL Travers’s book

Meryl Streep is set to sing once more, joining Emily Blunt and Hamilton star Lin Manuel-Miranda in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns.

Sources have told Variety that Streep is being lined up to play Poppins’s cousin by marriage, Topsy Tartlet. Topsy is a maid who, in PL Travers’s Mary Poppins Comes Back, marries Arthur Turvy – so changing her name to Topsy Turvy. The character did not feature in the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, which Travers famously hated.

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