Inside Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s Special Friendship

But despite moving in adjacent and sometimes concentric circles for years, the pair had never worked together before Only Murders in the Building. 

“The first day of shooting with her, I was going to work, and—you know, I’m not new to show business—and I thought, ‘I am nervous today. Why?’ Oh yeah, I’m working with Meryl,” Short told E! News in September. Hence how charmed he was when, after the two had set up a shot and were waiting in a holding area for cameras to roll, she admitted that she was a little nervous too.

“She said, ‘Okay, my nerves are to half,'” Short recalled. “I went, Oh, okay, that’s pretty cool. Maybe that’s why you’re the greatest actress, because you’ve never taken anything for granted.”