Meryl Streep hopes to have more grandchildren in the future.

The 76-year-old actress - who already has six grandkids all under the age of six - wants to make the most of the time she has with her family, particularly as she gets older.

She told Vogue magazine: "It's just grabbing seconds, just grabbing everything you can of them, with the knowledge of how completely fleeting it all is and how rapidly time goes.

"This is what my mother said to me, and I said, 'Yeah, yeah.' It's the longest, shortest time. And you can't get anything back. So take as much as you can…

"I find it divine. I have six grandchildren, six under six. They're six, five, four, three, two, and one. I hope we're not done, but we'll see."

Meanwhile, The Devil Wears Prada 2 star admitted she is grateful that her children want her to spend so much time with her grandkids.

She added: "I can't even talk about how much it means to me that my kids give me as much time as they do with their kids.

"The only thing is that they're on two coasts, so I'm in the airplane a lot."

Meanwhile, Only Murders showrunner John Hoffman previously recalled Meryl having "tears in her eyes" as she thanked him for giving her the opportunity to have an on-screen romance in her 70s.

Her character Loretta Durkin made her debut in season three of the hit Disney+ show and sparked a romance with Martin Short's alter ego Oliver Putnam.

Speaking to Decider, John said: "I remember one night we were shooting on the ferry in Episode 5 of Season 3. We shot until about 2 in the morning on the most gorgeous night in Manhattan.

"I got off to gangplank there and Meryl was waiting and she had tears in her eyes and she said, 'I just had to wait here for you to get off the boat to say thank you.'

"And I was like, 'What?' and she said, 'I just got to play a scene I really thought that the likes of which I wouldn't have a chance to do. To play romantic scenes at this age with this band in this way, it's just the greatest thing ever.'"