Meryl Streep addressed the issue of diversity at the Berlin Film Festival during a press conference on Thursday.
Streep was asked if she, as the head of the festival’s jury, felt that she understood movies that came from North African and Arab countries.
“There is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture, and after all we’re all from Africa originally,” Streep said, according to the Washington Post. “We’re all Berliners, we’re all Africans, really.”
Streep leads the seven-person jury, which consists of British actor Clive Owen; British film critic Nick James; French photographer Brigitte Lacombe; German actor Lars Eidinger; Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher; and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska.