CORRECTION: Meryl Streep’s “We’re all Africans, really” comment was a direct response to a question about Arab and African films, not a response to questions about the Berlinale Film Festival’s all white jury, as the article and headline originally suggested. A recording of the panel shows that Streep’s original comments were misrepresented in subsequent reports.

At the panel, a reporter from Egypt spoke about how the festival had a film “representing Tunisia, the Arab world and Africa in the main competition” and followed that up with a question for Streep: "How do you see this part of the world? And is it easy for you to understand that culture? And are you following any of the Arab movies?”

This was Streep’s response.

“Yes, in fact I’ve just seen a film called Theeb, which I loved. I saw Timbuktu recently … I don’t know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I’ve played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we’re all, there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we’re all from Africa originally. We’re all Berliners, we’re all Africans, really."

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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.

"This jury is evidence that at least women are included and in fact dominate this jury, and that's an unusual situation in bodies of people who make decisions," Streep said. "So I think the Berlinale is ahead of the game."

An Egyptian reporter also asked Streep if she "understood films from the Arab world and North Africa," according to AP. Though she doesn't know much about the area, she says, "I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures."

"There is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture, and after all we're all from Africa originally," she said. "Berliners, we're all Africans, really."

Okay, Meryl.

Diversity has been a major issue in Hollywood as of late, especially concerning this year's Academy Awards. Only white actors were nominated for Oscars, with mostly white nominees in other categories as well. Celebrities like Lupita Nyong'o and Ava DuVernay spoke out against the nominations, while Jada Pinkett and Will Smith vowed to boycott the awards show altogether.