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Film director Michael Lehmann's speech (also reads a letter from Patricia Arquette) at Christian Slater's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony on Monday, June 10, 2025, at 6201 Hollywood Blvd. in front of Eastown in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Film director Michael Lehmann's speech (also reads a letter from Patricia Arquette) at Christian Slater's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony on Monday, June 10, 2025, at 6201 Hollywood Blvd. in front of Eastown in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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00:00Michael Lehman
00:03Michael, I understand you're both going to say a few words and read a letter from Patricia Arquette, so take it away.
00:17Okay, thank you very much. I am really here to play Patricia Arquette, which is something I've wanted to do my entire life.
00:25So please forgive my performance. Before I read Patricia's lovely letter about Christian, I just want to say,
00:33Christian, you are phenomenal, you are amazing, you are a true movie star, you have all the charisma and all the movie star abilities,
00:41and you are an amazing actor. And I can say this having worked with you as a teenager and as a grown person.
00:49Not that you weren't grown as a teenager. So I just want to let you all know, he is the best. The best of the best.
01:04Now I will do my best to represent Patricia and read her letter.
01:09Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so sorry that I couldn't join you today to honor an actor whose charm and edge and undeniable talent has lit up screens for over four decades, Christian Slater.
01:23From the moment he burst onto the scene in The Legend of Billie Jean, and then haunted our thoughts in Heather's,
01:30Christian has carved out a career defined by intensity, vulnerability, and authenticity.
01:37Incredibly committed to his craft, he has worked with some of the best artists of our time,
01:43and whether he played a rebellious teen or a calculating hacker, he's always delivered top-notch performances and made us feel.
01:53I was fortunate enough to be blessed to work with Christian during his turn as Clarence Worley in the cult classic True Romance.
02:02At that time, when I got the audition for True Romance, I was told I was auditioning for a Christian Slater movie,
02:09which made all of my girlfriends terribly jealous.
02:13With a script by Quentin Tarantino, and under the incredible direction of Tony Scott,
02:18Slater created a character who was wild, romantic, vulnerable, deadly, and entirely unforgettable.
02:25In that film, my character, Alabama, couldn't help but tell him,
02:30you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool.
02:34And honestly, I've been saying the same thing about Christian ever since.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Roger Ebert said of Slater's performance,
02:42he brings a kind of scruffy sweetness to a role that could have been just manic.
02:47And that balance of danger and heart is something Christian has delivered time and time again.
02:52From Pump Up the Volume, to Interview with a Vampire,
02:56from Mr. Robot, where he earned a Golden Globe, to his countless theater performances,
03:01Christian continues to evolve, surprise, and inspire.
03:06A committed father and husband, and a fierce Trekkie.
03:10I did not know that.
03:12He once said,
03:13the movies I made when I was younger are the movies I still love watching.
03:18I feel so lucky to have been in one of them with you.
03:21Congratulations, my friend.
03:23It is so well deserved.
03:24Thank you, Patricia.
03:25That is lovely.
03:26Thank you, David W rice.