--- description: The Giver (Bridges) tries — and fails — to appease the Chief Elder (Streep) in a new clip title: Exclusive Clip from 'The Giver' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt280ad55e985a68e6/69869f5ad0b6f21570305ad7/screen-shot-2014-08-13-at-10-11-27-am.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Exclusive: Watch Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges Face Off in _The Giver_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 13, 2014 1:30 PM CUT   by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 13, 2014 1:30 PM CUT You don’t want to make Meryl Streep angry — not when she’s the playing the seemingly benevolent Chief Elder of a community that’s not-so-utopian behind closed doors. But that’s exactly what the titular character in _The Giver_, played by Jeff Bridges, does when his protege Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) starts sharing secret repressed memories of civilization with his blissfully ignorant friends. Catch the scene in the YA classic’s film adaptation when it hits theaters this Friday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3104990/the-giver-meryl-streep-jeff-bridges/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3104990/the-giver-meryl-streep-jeff-bridges/"},"headline":"Exclusive: Watch Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges Face Off in The Giver","datePublished":"2014-08-13T13:30:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:37:58.978Z","description":"The Giver (Bridges) tries — and fails — to appease the Chief Elder (Streep) in a new clip","url":"https://time.com/3104990/the-giver-meryl-streep-jeff-bridges/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt280ad55e985a68e6/69869f5ad0b6f21570305ad7/screen-shot-2014-08-13-at-10-11-27-am.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt280ad55e985a68e6/69869f5ad0b6f21570305ad7/screen-shot-2014-08-13-at-10-11-27-am.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-08-13 at 10.11.27 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3104990/the-giver-meryl-streep-jeff-bridges/","name":"Exclusive: Watch Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges Face Off in The Giver"}}]}] ```