00:02She's an artist whose talent, range, and dedication have set the gold standard for generations.
00:09You will again catch her reprising her Devil Wears Prada role as Miranda Priestly
00:13on movie screens around the world.
00:16Welcome the boss, Meryl Streep.
00:30Hi, everybody.
00:32Um, God.
00:37Emily, I feel like I birthed you, really.
00:42I'm so proud of you, and everything the fellas said is absolutely true.
00:47I can't wait to work with you again.
00:50And the best thing about you getting this at such a tender age
00:56is that we'll have, we'll have you to kick around for at least 35 years if my career is any
01:03evidence,
01:04and I'm just, I'm in love with you just like everybody else.
01:09Now, Stanley.
01:16I had the same sinking feeling as Robert
01:20when I realized that I had tragically thought about what I was going to say ahead of time,
01:28and wrote it down.
01:31But, um, I also noticed that no one else was going to speak, so I took it very seriously.
01:43You can't even call Stanley a national treasure anymore because I've just been around the world,
01:50and truly the affection hurled at him globally.
01:55He's just marinating in it.
01:59And it's impossible not to love Stanley Tucci.
02:06Urbane, sly, funny, bitchy.
02:14And generous and curious and, and so elegant.
02:21Stanley has an elegance to his heterosexuality.
02:27His undeniable heterosexuality, which is formidable.
02:33Not that heterosexuality is better than any other kind of sexuality.
02:38It's just that elegance, real, unforced, natural, unstyled elegance, is sometimes harder for straight men.
02:54I'm not looking at anybody here or intending any slight.
03:02But I'm just saying that his, it's a weird word, but elan, his soulfulness is evident in the most elevated
03:16characters
03:17and also in the low-down characters.
03:19It's a thing he can't lose.
03:22It's no matter if it's a priest or a prosecutor or a pervert or puck or Paul Child,
03:29he always finds something true and surprising in every man that he plays.
03:38He transforms character acting into leading man material.
03:45And his, your elegance and delight in just being alive is, is also evident when you're shaking a cocktail or
03:57rustling up dinner.
03:59But especially when you're complaining.
04:04A special relish.
04:07Stanley can really muster up a mighty grievance.
04:14Rivaling the great Nora Ephron, also right up there.
04:20And me, the world's biggest whiner, which Disney can attest to.
04:29I can't even hope to compete with him.
04:33But Stanley has taken his great good fortune and married it, literally.
04:38He has married it to his innate artistry and his incredible discipline and his imagination.
04:52And he's created something really unique in our world as an actor, director, writer, producer, chef, curator, tour guide,
05:06entrepreneur, and designer.
05:09I mean, who else has done this in our business?
05:15Nobody in the front row.
05:21Or even across the street at the Turner Classic movies.
05:27There's nobody in the world who has done what he has done.
05:30And it's astonishing.
05:31And I'm in awe.
05:32And he has like, I don't know, eight children.
05:37Right?
05:38That's alone.
05:40I want to lie down.
05:43I've known you longer as a friend than as a scene partner.
05:52And we've been through some rough times together.
05:55And some great times.
05:58And I love you deeply.
06:03And I've adored working with Stanley.
06:07I've done it often.
06:08And I am ready to go again, as the actress said to the bishop.
06:14Whenever you raise your elegant little finger.
06:18Love you, Stanley.
06:19I've been following.
06:21Well done.
06:25Thank you, Stanley, very much.
06:30Thank you, John.
06:33You
Comments