Meryl Streep on who should play her on film: 'Amy Schumer, of course'

Many have called Meryl Streep the greatest actress of her generation. Now "the Great One" shines light on who she'd choose to play her in a bio-pic.

"Amy Schumer, of course," says the three-time Academy Award winner, 19-time nominee.

The revelation came during a press junket with The Huffington Post promoting Streep's latest film, "Florence Foster Jenkins."

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When Schumer got word of Streep's compliment, she was understandably stunned. Her response: "Holy s—."

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THP's entertainment reporter Matthew Jacobs sat down with Streep for a quickie five-minute chat and got creative with questions the star, undoubtedly, had never been asked before. Like, which former co-star would be best at scaring off a bear while camping. Streep's response: "Liam Neeson. Duh."

Streep plays a real-life society grand dame who sang with enormous enthusiasm but only the vaguest acquaintance with things like pitch, timing and tone in Florence Foster Jenkins, which opened Friday to so-so reviews. The Stephen Frears-directed film also stars Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg, best known as the genius with a seriously bad sense of style on The Big Bang Theory.