Viola Davis has a girl crush on Meryl Streep.
“What I love about Meryl is I always feel like she sees me,” Davis, 51, gushed to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday. “I never feel like the words she has for me are haphazard. I feel like they’re very specific and they’re well thought out, and that makes me feel good. It makes me feel like she really is a friend, that she really takes me in.”
As for what those words are, it almost doesn’t even matter to the “How to Get Away with Murder” star.
“Well, let me tell you, besides the fact that it’s Meryl Streep, she really doesn’t have to give me anything, really,” Davis said with a chuckle. “When she just sends me a text message she doesn’t know I get so happy. I try to play it off — I really do! I’m like, ‘Oh ok, well, have a good day!’ But I’m really like, ‘Oh my God, she texted me back!’”
One thing Davis has in common with Streep, 67, is the title of Oscar winner after taking home the Best Supporting Actress gold for “Fences” — but it hasn’t gone to Davis’ head.
“It feels good,” Davis said of her win. “It’s not my style to kind of labor over awards. I get them, I kiss the statue, I put the statue on the shelf and then I get back to work, but I love feeling like people feel like I’m an influence. I know what it meant to me when Miss [Cicely] Tyson and Meryl Streep — they made me feel like it was possible to dream in this little space that I had in my brain and my heart growing up in poverty,” she said. “They made me feel like it was possible. So for me to do that for someone else means the world to me.”