Shah Rukh is widely known for his smart wit and perfect timing when it comes to answering back people.

Meryl Streep took the internet by storm recently with her speech at the Golden Globe Awards. She is a living legend, no doubt, with the entire world, including Hollywood giving her the respect that she deserves. But to make a speech that bold and take on the U.S President, is not something everyone can do, right? “It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life,” she was quoted saying.

Ever since her speech, the social media has been going crazy about how our stars can never afford to pull off a Meryl Streep speech, because of the sheer amount of guts it would take to address prevalent social issues and question the ones sitting in power. Recently, Shah Rukh Khan in an interview with the Hindustan Times, addressed this latest ongoing trend when he was asked to make a comment on what he thinks about the powerful Meryl Streep speech.

Shah Rukh is widely known for his smart wit and perfect timing when it comes to answering back people. So when he was asked if he would ever make a speech like that, he stayed clear of all troubles and said “You like Meryl Streep so much, run her tape. God bless you; you have Meryl Streep saying it, so why do you want someone else to say the same thing? Why do you want to be a copycat like you always have been? It’s stupid.”

He was also asked if he thought what Meryl Streep did was right, to which he had to say, “I think Meryl Streep said a wonderful thing. We all have to be like that, and I am not talking about just artistes. Also, whenever something happens somewhere, they are like, ‘Why isn’t Shah Rukh Khan commenting on it?’ But I don’t want to. I am an actor, main koi vocal leader thodi na hoon (I am not a vocal leader, right?). So, what the lady said is marvellous. She found a platform and she found people who appreciated what she said. In India, everybody has so many opinions that they want to pick on something others say.”

The actor will soon be sen in one of the most awaited releases of this year, Raees, along with Mahira Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui!