Regina King Gets Emotional Talking Best Supporting Actress Win  | Oscars 2019 - video Dailymotion

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King won the award for her role in 'If Beale Street Could Talk.'

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00:00Oh, Regina, congratulations.

00:02First of all, my name's Margaret Crowe with KNX Radio.

00:05Hey.

00:07What was it, how sweet was it to have your mom there

00:10in the front row with you?

00:11Obviously, you gave much praise to her

00:13during your acceptance speech.

00:14What did it mean to you to have her there tonight?

00:17It's hard to like put it in words really quickly.

00:22I feel like it's kind of like one of those full circle

00:26moments because so much of the character Shana Rivers

00:31was mapped or inspired by my mother and my grandmother.

00:36So to have her there, my family was there,

00:39my sister Raina, my son Ian were there.

00:43They're both here tonight and it goes by so fast

00:47and you want to thank so many people

00:48and your mind just goes blank.

00:51And you know, my mom was like the lighthouse right there

00:56and just everything.

01:01So we're going to 116 and then back to 258.

01:03Congratulations, right here, Regina, right here.

01:07Right in front, right in front.

01:08My real question is will you adopt me?

01:10But at a time when we talk about anger and blame

01:15and placing shame on people, how was it to get to say those words

01:21and play somebody who believed, you know,

01:25to the depth of their soul about love?

01:29Love, persevering.

01:30I mean, if Beale Street could talk, it's a beautiful film.

01:37It's a beautiful novel.

01:38Before it was a thank you.

01:40Before it was a film, you might be clapping for somebody else,

01:42but I'm going to take that thank you.

01:46And where we are, to your point, where we are right now,

01:49I think that it's a film that breaks through a lot of the sections

01:59that exist right now.

02:03You know, love is that thing that pushes us through trauma.

02:08You know, this is an urban tragedy,

02:10but tragedy is something that is experienced no matter what sex you are,

02:16no matter what race you are, and love and support

02:19is usually what pushes us through, which gets us to the other side.

02:24So I think this film is so needed right now

02:27because we need a lot of help getting through the other side

02:31and seeing how much we are alike.

02:34We are different in a lot of ways, absolutely.

02:36Our circumstances are so different,

02:39but to the core, to the core, we're really a lot alike.

02:46We're going to 258 and then 63.

02:48Good evening, Regina King.

02:50Regina?

02:51I'm still looking for your glasses.

02:52Right here. How are you? You look beautiful.

02:55I saw the film in Harlem.

02:56Congratulations.

02:57I am Tanisha Laverne Grant with blackinamerica.com.

03:00My question is to you, 400 years ago this year in 1619,

03:04the first slaves were brought to Jamestown.

03:07Talk to me a little bit about what it means to stand here today,

03:09winning your first Academy Award,

03:12the same place where, you know, Hattie McDaniel

03:16and so many others who may have been discounted.

03:21Well, I mean, it's...

03:23I mean, I think it kind of piggybacks on what we were just saying

03:26in the last question,

03:29that it means so much for me personally

03:32because you guys aren't able to witness this,

03:35but the love and support and the lifting up

03:39that I have received on my journey as an actor

03:43in just this last five months,

03:45how many people have been rooting for me,

03:48and it has not just been black people,

03:51although, you know, the black family has always lifted me,

03:57but it's just a reminder of when Hattie McDaniels won.

04:02She didn't win just because black people voted for her.

04:05She won because she gave an amazing performance,

04:08and especially then,

04:12the Academy was not as reflective as it is now.

04:19We're still trying to get more reflective,

04:21still trying to get there,

04:23but I feel like I've had so many women

04:28that have paved the way, are paving the way,

04:33and I feel like I walk in their light,

04:36and I also am creating my own light,

04:38and there are young women that will walk in the light

04:43that I'm continuing to shine and expand

04:47from those women before me.

04:48You know, I'm blessed and highly favored.

04:51Yeah.

04:52We're gonna go to 63,

04:53and then I unfortunately do have to wrap it up.

04:55I'll do it with 23.

04:56Hi, Regina.

04:58I'm Tondra Stedham from The Root.

04:59Congratulations.

05:01Very well deserved.

05:03So I'm thinking about that very climactic scene

05:06when you confronted you and Emily Rios.

05:08Yes.

05:09And it's such a visceral and emotionally

05:11enrouted scene.

05:11So I wanted to ask you,

05:13what particular source did you draw from

05:16to portray such emotion?

05:19You know, all of us,

05:21we just pulled on being women,

05:23and we have all been in,

05:24if we have not experienced a violation

05:27on that level firsthand,

05:30we have lifted a sister up through that.

05:33And that, you know,

05:34even all the way from when the abuelitas came in

05:37and escorted her off,

05:39that was something that was universal

05:41with every woman that had something to do

05:44with this production,

05:45the understanding and the need to make sure

05:52that it was very clear in this story

05:54that we all knew that she was raped.

05:57It wasn't Fonny, but she was raped.

06:00And we hold each other up through a secret

06:04that shouldn't be a secret so often.

06:07That's the beautiful thing about the Me Too movement.

06:09And the Me Too movement has,

06:11I think, has gone even beyond that

06:16with creating opportunities for women to find their voice,

06:25even beyond just being violated sexually,

06:28but being marginalized, being violated.

06:32when you have put in the work to be at the table

06:38and being denied a seat at the table,

06:41this movement has allowed us

06:44and has inspired us to say,

06:45no, I am supposed to have a seat at that table.

06:49So that energy was going on throughout the production

06:52of that film, of this film.

06:54Barry supported that and lifted it up as well.

06:58And that's the thing, when you have men and women

07:02working together, pretty amazing things happen.

07:06And last question.

07:07Right here, Regina.

07:08Over here, Tanya Hart.

07:10How are you?

07:10I told you you had that winner's dress on.

07:13You did say that.

07:14Congratulations.

07:15If Beale Street Could Talk was a very important part

07:17of American literature before this movie,

07:20what do you think James Baldwin would say right now

07:22and feel about this win and about the movie?

07:24I think one word, something that he would say often.

07:31Amen.

07:34Thank you so much and congratulations.

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