Meryl Streep has revealed that she would love Viola Davis to win the Best Actress award at tomorrow's Academy Awards.
Streep is nominated in the same category for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, while Davis is nominated for The Help.
When asked if she would prefer Davis to win, Streep told The Sun: "Yes, oh yes. I love her and think she's amazing.
"She deserves [it] and should be at the forefront of our business. She's a friend and we've worked together and I'm really fond of her. So we want the best for our friends. Honestly."
Streep also spoke about her role as Thatcher, saying of the former British Prime Minister: "As I researched [Thatcher's] life I was so interested to find that in most social issues she was way, way, way to the left of any American conservative.
"She was pro-choice, she recognised global warming early on, she accepted and would never not allow the right to healthcare from birth throughout life that every Briton has enjoyed since 1948 - she never attempted to dismantle that.
"What she did dismantle was the telephone company, the light, the heat, the transport - everything owned and managed by the state. I remember in 1979 I went to England to make a movie and it took us six months to get a telephone - we got the phone a month after we left."
Streep has already won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for the role.
