Linda Powell Talks Celebrating Actors and Actresses at the SAG Awards Following the SAG-AFTRA Strike | THR Video - video Dailymotion

Linda Powell talks celebrating actors and actresses following the SAG-AFTRA strike, what role got her her SAG card and more at the SAG Awards.

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00:00Do you feel like today's ceremony has a renewed sense of energy following the SAG-AFTRA strike from last year?

00:05My God, absolutely. I mean, you can feel it out here.

00:08Everybody is ready to celebrate.

00:10Everybody's looking forward to this next year, taking advantage of the wins

00:14and the new sense of collective energy that we've got going into this.

00:19So it's just a great night to celebrate. I'm feeling it.

00:22What does it mean to celebrate actors tonight after last year's SAG-AFTRA strike?

00:25Well, one of the big things that we talked about throughout the strike was the importance of the humanity

00:31that we bring into the room when we go to work.

00:33And tonight we celebrate the people who bring a human face to these films

00:38and bring their souls to these films.

00:41And I'm convinced that's never going to go out of style.

00:44That's never going to be replaced. So it's fun to celebrate it.

00:46Since we are celebrating actors and acting, what role got you your SAG card?

00:50My SAG card, it was a show called Snoops.

00:54And I was a college student and my line was, he's over there, professor.

01:01And you'll never forget it.

01:02I will never forget it.

01:04There have been so many amazing films released this past year.

01:07Do you have a favorite film in this award season race?

01:09I've got two. Oppenheimer, just because it's so gorgeous.

01:14It's like an exploration of humanity and science and hard choices that we face

01:22and the unknowns and life and death and big picture and what is God and what is man.

01:29I mean, it's big.

01:29And then American fiction, because it's smaller, just a smaller version of the same kind of deep questions about who we are,

01:38how do we make who we are, and how do we want to live our lives.

01:42Those two.

01:43Plus, I love Jeffrey Wright. He's an old friend, so it's great to see him having his moment.

01:48That's amazing. Is there anybody else you're excited to see here tonight at the SAG Awards?

01:51Well, and I heard Idris Elba's here, so yeah, a little bit of that would be nice.

01:57And in your role at the Guild, what are your hopes for the union in 2024, especially after the strike?

02:02Well, I was elected vice president during our last convention, October,

02:07and we got cut short to go back to the negotiating table.

02:11So I feel like I'm taking this office at the beginning of a brand new kind of restructuring,

02:18reinvigoration, reimagining of who we are and what we can be so that we are facing the future with energy that's for today.

02:28So that's part of the challenge in front of us and part of the opportunity in front of us.

02:33Looking forward to it.