Meryl Streep deflected a question about the wave of sexual misconduct allegations being made in Hollywood by calling out two women who have remained silent about their own relationship with an alleged sexual predator.

'I don’t want to hear about the silence of me. I want to hear about the silence of Melania Trump. I want to hear from her. She has so much that’s valuable to say,' Streep said in an interview with The New York Times.

'And so does Ivanka. I want her to speak now.'

Streep also breaks her silence on Dustin Hoffman, confirming a report that claimed the Oscar-winning actor slapped her while they were filming Kramer vs Kramer.

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GOAT: Meryl Streep addressed the wave of sexual misconduct allegations being made against men in Hollywood in a new interview (above in December)

Hat trick: The Oscar-winning actress also said she wanted to hear from Melania and Ivanka Trump given their proximity to an alleged sexual predator (above with President Trump in May)

'This is tricky because when you’re an actor, you’re in a scene, you have to feel free. I’m sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes,' explained Streep.

'But there’s a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping.'

She went on to state: 'But I think those things are being corrected in this moment. And they’re not politically corrected; they’re fixed. They will be fixed, because people won’t accept it anymore.'

Streep was widely criticized for her silence in the days after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke because of her silence, with many assuming she must have been aware of the movie mogul's sexual misconduct.

She was not aware of the sexual assaults and harassment Weinstein had been committing over the course of four decades she later revealed, and in the interview she discusses the days after The New York Times expose was released.

'I found out about this on a Friday and went home deep into my own life. And then somebody told me that on Morning Joe they were screaming that I haven’t responded yet. I don’t have a Twitter thing or – handle, whatever. And I don’t have Facebook,' said Streep.

'I really had to think. Because it really underlined my own sense of cluelessness, and also how evil, deeply evil, and duplicitous, a person he was, yet such a champion of really great work.'

The slap: Streep also confirmed a report that Dustin Hoffman slapped her on the set of Kramer vs Kramer but said it was in the moment and she forgave him (pair above in the 1978 film)

She later admitted she had heard of Weinstein's affairs, but dismissed stories she heard about relationships he had with other actresses.

'Well, honestly for me in terms of Harvey, I really didn’t know. I did think he was having girlfriends. But when I heard rumors about actresses, I thought that that was a way of denigrating the actress and her ability to get the job,' said Streep.

'That really raised my hackles. I didn’t know that he was in any way abusing people.'

And Streep also revealed that she had gone through difficult times of her own as a younger woman, acknowledging that she was physically assaulted by one man.

'I mean, I was really beaten up, but I don’t want to ruin somebody’s mature life,' said Streep, who also said that the 70s were a bad time due to cocaine, which she suggested was responsible for amplifying people's 'sh***y behavior.'

She also noted of Weinstein: 'He never asked me to a hotel room. I don’t know how his life was conducted without people intimately knowing about it.'