If you had to pick someone to play Meryl Streep in a biopic, who would it be? According to Meryl, there is no contest – it should be Amy Schumer. During her promotional interview for Florence Foster Jenkins, Huffington Post reporter, Matthew Jacobs, tried to shake things up from the usual ten-question interview by playing a game with Meryl. The game was for Meryl to name a former co-star for a series of obscure tasks. Among the questions was who could chase off a bear (Liam Neeson), who could hula-hoop (George Clooney) and who would best imitate farm animals (her Jenkins co-star, Simon Helberg). The last question in the edited video was who should play her in a biopic and Meryl answered Amy. It was just about he only answer she didn’t struggle with.

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 biopic.

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

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

When Schumer got word of Streep’s compliment, she was understandably stunned. Her response: “Holy s—.”

[The Wrap]

So Amy? No. Sorry, I can’t see it. The only connection I can make is that their voices are sort of similar. Meryl answered quickly, too, as if she had that answer chambered, like she’s thought about it. And Jacobs agreed it was a good choice. Personal bias: I never want to see Amy as Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada), if even as a recreation. (She did swap places with Anna Wintour once though.) I understand Amy’s reaction, though. I wonder how many interviews she will be able to work this in to? And her poor friends – she’ll start every sentence with, “when I was hand selected by Meryl to play her… ”

Meryl gave a much lengthier (and deeper) interview to The Hollywood Reporter that shed some light on her choice of Amy, however. Of her heroes like Liza Minnelli, Irene Worth and Geraldine Page, Meryl said, “They weren’t women who were preoccupied mostly with how they looked or were they appealing; they were just women being women.” This is what Amy says she promotes, right? Although, I think even Amy would balk at actually playing Meryl. As the THR interview points out, Meryl has been labeled “the greatest film actress of all time,” even the largest ego would see that is a fairly tall order to fill.

On the other side of the equation, does anyone else think Meryl might be overestimating her sense of humor by selecting one of the top female comics to play her?

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