00:16Thank you very much.
00:24Thank you.
00:25Thank you very much.
00:28Thank you.
00:30Please tell.
00:31Please tell.
00:33Thank you.
00:36I love you all, but you'll have to forgive me.
00:39I've lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend.
00:45And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.
00:57Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press.
01:00Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room really belong to
01:08the most vilified segments in American society right now.
01:13Think about it.
01:14Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.
01:22But who are we?
01:24And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway?
01:27It's just a bunch of people from other places.
01:29I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey.
01:33Viola was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina.
01:38Came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
01:40Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn.
01:46Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio.
01:52Amy Adams was born in Vicenzo, Veneto, Italy.
01:56And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem.
01:58Where are their birth certificates?
02:05And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London, in, no, in Ireland,
02:15I do believe.
02:16And she's here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia.
02:21Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian.
02:30And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.
02:38So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners.
02:42And if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts,
02:47which are not the arts.
03:03They gave me three seconds to say this, so.
03:07An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us
03:12and let you feel what that feels like.
03:15And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that.
03:20that breathtaking, compassionate work.
03:22But there was one performance this year that stunned me.
03:26It sank its hooks in my heart.
03:29Not because it was good.
03:31It was, there was nothing good about it.
03:34But it was effective and it did its job.
03:36It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.
03:42It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country,
03:49imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back.
04:01It, it, it kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of
04:06my head because it wasn't in a movie.
04:08It was real life.
04:10And this instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful.
04:20It filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
04:29Disrespect invites disrespect.
04:31Violence incites violence.
04:35When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
04:40Okay.
04:41Go up with that thing.
04:43Okay.
04:44This brings me to the press.
04:45We need the principled press to hold power to account, to, to call them on the carpet.
04:53We're outraged.
05:03That's why, that's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution.
05:09So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join
05:17me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists.
05:21Because we're going to need them going forward and they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
05:27One more thing.
05:34Once when I was standing on the set one day, whining about something, you know, we were going to work
05:41through supper or, or the long hours or whatever.
05:44Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?
05:53Yeah, it is.
05:54And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy.
06:01We should all be very proud of the work.
06:04Hollywood honors here tonight.
06:10As my, as my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia said to me once,
06:20take your broken heart, make it into art.
06:23Thank you.
06:23Thank you.
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