00:00 Please welcome a walk of famer in her own right, Jennifer Garner.
00:07 [Applause]
00:23 Hello and good morning. It's so good to see all of you guests and sunrise and ruffalitos.
00:33 Of course. Yeah. Here. I'll be fine. Here, here, here. I got it.
00:41 So I was asked late last night to pinch hit for our beautiful COVID struck Laura Dern.
00:50 And a few things popped into my mind when this happened. Of course, I hope that she feels well really soon and recovers really easily.
00:59 And also thinking of that, who wants to take over for Laura Dern?
01:02 She's the most beloved best friend of everyone in this entire town.
01:07 And then I thought, well, damn my bang up immune system, because I keep having to pinch hit for COVID people.
01:13 And I'm just up here strong, sturdy, just making this shit up on the way over.
01:20 So then I was thinking, well, thank God for smart list, because I'm all caught up.
01:26 I know what's going on. And that led me to wait a minute.
01:31 I know this is a question you are all wondering, so I'm just going to cover the elephant in the room.
01:36 Why wasn't I asked to do this in the first place? I kicked off the Mark Ruffalo rom-com era.
01:45 I mean, it was bookended 20 years later with the Atom Project. Right.
01:53 I mean, it writes itself. Thank you. But anyway, here we go.
02:03 All right. All right. Now, don't get cute yet.
02:08 So Fincher, of course, spoke passionately about Mark's work, his work ethic, who he is on screen, his devotion to his craft.
02:17 Laura's speech, I mean, come on, beautiful, heartfelt, well-written, not written on the way over this morning.
02:25 She talks about Mark, the human, the activist. Tim covered Mark as a friend.
02:30 It really seems like it is up to me. And honestly, I don't know what you would have done without me.
02:35 Thank God I showed up. I have got to be here to honor and elucidate rom-com Ruffalo.
02:47 Wait, I wrote the end next, so I've got to skip to the middle. OK.
02:52 Thanks in part to the success of 13 Going on 30. And by the way, how lucky are we to have been in a movie that kids are dressing up
02:59 for is Halloween, that people still mean something to people. Gary Winnick. Love that guy.
03:06 So it kind of became a thing. And I wonder if my colleagues Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Anderson, Gwyneth, Keira Knightley.
03:16 I wonder if they would agree that Mark owes this rom-com success to the scruffy hair, the untucked cute button down,
03:24 both of which became like the norm for cute guys everywhere for the next 20 years.
03:29 I wonder if these esteemed ladies enjoyed Mark's anxiety as much as I did.
03:35 I wonder if he tried to drop out of their films like he did out of ours after the first rehearsal of the thriller dance,
03:43 where Mark went from kind of shocked that we actually had to do this to antsy to a deathly quiet to bro, this is not for me.
03:53 I wonder if my lady friends would agree with me that knowing Mark, the young dad was a privilege.
04:00 The pull between providing for and being present for his young family added an intensity to everything Mark did.
04:09 The pull before the pull between providing for his family and doing more serious work was ever present to.
04:18 It seems like you figured that out, Mark. Both of them. Good for you.
04:23 But like Mark's predecessors, and you had your list, but I'll give you Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart.
04:32 Mark added depth to what was light. He was smooth, mercurial. You never see the work.
04:39 There's a through line from beloved Maddie in 13 Going on 30 to Duncan in Poor Things,
04:46 a common thread of anxiety. Yes, of clarity of purpose, of understanding of story, of standing up for your characters,
04:55 being a person of character, showing up for your co-stars, bringing your family with you into every moment of every scene
05:04 and showing up with joy to work with you. Mark is to love you. I don't care what anyone says.
05:12 You allow yourself to be fully known by your colleagues, by the audience, by the world.
05:19 Your work on Poor Things deserves all of the awards, all of them.
05:25 But the real success is in how thrilled and delighted your colleagues are to have the opportunity to lift you up and celebrate you.
05:34 Every time your name is called, Hollywood takes a deep collective breath and says, OK, the good and right thing has happened.
05:43 Our work doesn't happen alone. We're a product of our partnerships and our communities.
05:48 Congratulations to Mark and to Mark's people, to Margaret, who loves you dearly, to Sunrise, who loves you dearly,
05:58 to your children, to your communities, your upstate family, to your representatives, to the entire world who calls you theirs.
06:07 And there I include myself, even if sometimes I make you dance. Congratulations, Mark. We love you.
06:16 [Applause]
06:39 (whooshing)
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