Meryl Streep on diversity: ‘We’re all Africans, really’
By Yohana Desta at Mashable
Ask Meryl Streep about diversity, and she’ll give you a rather curious answer.
“We’re all Africans, really,” the three-time Oscar winner said on Thursday, in response to an inquiry about the all-white panel at the Berlin International Film Festival. Streep is serving as the festival’s jury president this year.
She added that the festival is determined to include “all genders, races, ethnicities, religions.” Its 2016 jury is made up of seven white people: actor Lars Eidinger, British film critic Nick James, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, British actor Clive Owen, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska.
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