00:00Robert, I love you so much.
00:05You are the older brother that I never had
00:10and wasn't sure I wanted, but I guess...
00:17I'm so grateful to you for being the best partner on screen,
00:22for being always the most honest and brilliant reflection back,
00:26not just about me but about us, our families, the world,
00:30and thank you for getting up at what must have been an ungodly hour
00:35for you to do your hair and come all the way here from Malibu.
00:40I love you so, so much.
00:43Oh my gosh, I'm shaking. Okay.
00:46Thank you so much for this.
00:49Sherry, it's such an honor to be given this award in your name.
00:53Sherry, when I started, Sherry was like the most formidable, badass woman in Hollywood,
01:02and also so beautiful and graceful.
01:05You were combining, you know, you were an amalgamation of all of these incredible archetypes
01:10and leading the way for us all.
01:12So I'm so proud to get this award.
01:16Bearing your name.
01:18I really feel so galvanized being in the room with all of these amazing women,
01:25and this has been an incredible homecoming of sorts, I guess.
01:31And I think because I went to the all-girls school, Spence, with Kerry Washington,
01:38I grew up really with this model of female respect that's really served as scaffolding for me.
01:48And I was really taught there to see that the brilliant insight of a classmate
01:53was like a stepping stone for myself and my own thinking and not a diminishment in any way.
01:58And so from 11 to 17, essentially I was taught how to be in community with women,
02:06these incredibly, like, smart, cool New York City women,
02:11this sort of pre-Internet, New Order-loving, you know, group of girls
02:17who were creating culture for ourselves by how each of us interpreted what we saw, right?
02:23Our uniforms, Madonna's rubber bracelets, and Kate Chopin,
02:29all the literature we were studying and always building on each other's reinterpretations.
02:35And there was never any competition between any of us,
02:38just the idea that we could use the creative and intellectual musings of our peers
02:44to be really bold about who we wanted to be.
02:48And I think this time in my life set me up to be a woman who reveres good women,
02:55women who are smarter than I am and more talented than I am,
02:59women who are expressive and really fearless.
03:04And it gave me the springboard into how I approach my career as an actor, as an artist,
03:11and as a founder of Goop, working largely with women with the express purpose of enriching female lives,
03:22I always felt that I was somebody who understood that the team was worth more as a sum than the parts of us.
03:30And I think it also gave me the courage to venture into my nature as a woman who felt I could unlock something for myself
03:39and maybe other women if I did things my own way.
03:44So leaving all my comfortable rooms and identities, you know, to start a family abroad and become an expat,
03:52and then an entrepreneur to the cries of,
03:55oh my God, what the fuck is she doing?
03:59But my life thus far has been so weird and rich and full of mysteries and heartbreaks and revelations and breakthroughs.
04:15So if I can be called a leader at all, I don't think it's because of anything I've achieved,
04:21but because I've just kept declaring myself the whole way through at all costs,
04:27regardless of reactions or perceptions or misperceptions,
04:33I just keep trying to identify who I actually am at every stage and chapter
04:39and living from that place in the truest way I know how,
04:43as an artist and a mother and a sister and a founder.
04:49And many, many times the world has declared back to me that I'm not doing it right,
04:56that my ideas are too new and that people would prefer me this way or that way.
05:02And yet I just keep declaring myself as messy or surprising or controversial as it may be at times.
05:14So to be among all of you women and the men who love us at this beautiful Hollywood Reporter event,
05:25to all the 100 women who are named today, to be here among you is really, it's really a gift.
05:32I really feel it.
05:34And I have a real felt sense of this community this morning,
05:40a community that seems to be okay with me and all my iterations and has welcomed me back.
05:47Before I go, I just want to say a quick thank you to my anchor, my husband, Brad Falchuk,
06:06who's the most feminist man I know and the most loving, who lets me be my full self every day.
06:13And thank you to women here and not here, Aline and Brenna and Eda and Cameron and Reese and Lake
06:26and Kate Hudson and Penelope and all the women in this business that have been by my side all of these years.
06:33And congratulations to Jennifer, such an amazing example of this powerful declaration of being who you are.
06:41Thank you all of you at The Hollywood Reporter and Lifetime for having me here today.
06:47And have a beautiful rest of your day.
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