00:02so welcome the guy who's mastered the art of making us feel things through a
00:06helmet through tears and through pure charisma Pedro Pascal I know I'm doing
00:20it on an iPad good morning thank you for having me I'm just gonna dive right in
00:26first memory a woman in a spacecraft lit by flashing strobe lights saving a ginger cat
00:36from a terrifying monster zero dialogue just brilliant thinking on a brilliant face
00:41I was hooked a kid's heart immediately tethered to a performance to a survivor to a protector
00:52so began my lifelong love of Sigourney Weaver and my love of being scared so much so that I was
01:01able to convince a friend's mom to take us to see the year of living dangerously because it sounded
01:07scary and of course it starred Sigourney Weaver instead of scary I met sweeping romance adult
01:15love political values and a vision of that woman in space now walking in the pouring rain of Indonesia
01:22with that Vangelis score no words again just expression and movement the weight of human
01:29suffering and moral choice falling wet from the sky above over the form of one of our greatest actors
01:37James Cameron's aliens shattered all ceilings I've been playing a space dad in the Star Wars universe for eight
01:47years now but Sigourney Weaver is the original space mom
01:57her maternal instincts helped annihilate a colony of these horrifying aliens bringing leadership command
02:05command grief rage and ultimately love to the very center of an action drama horror masterpiece in a leading lady
02:16performance for the ages
02:19not to mention already having held her own with all the funniest men in Ghostbusters
02:24Working Girl and Gorillas in the Mist made that year one of my favorite years in movies because of Sigourney
02:30I read
02:30Diane Fossey's book cover to cover I listened to Maurice Jarre score his heartbreaking cello like it was a lullaby
02:37I listened to it repeatedly so that I could remember her on that mountain and the utter power of that
02:44performance
02:47I've lost my way on my iPad
02:52this is the way
02:56I was such a fan that when Catherine Parker's plan is foiled in Working Girl I felt protective because no
03:06one speaks to Sigourney Weaver that way you understand
03:10so for the next few decades she has kept on giving and leading humbly stepping into every form like an
03:19animal
03:19absolute badass
03:22I want to thank you for leading me
03:26for teaching me for making me ask more and more of my own dreams and most of all for becoming
03:34my friend
03:36we share stories of being on stage doing regional theater of what it was like to get a first job
03:41making my life my dreams my love of acting and movies of storytelling an absolute full circle moment
03:51I had I had big dreams as a kid thanks to you but I never thought they could be this
03:57big
03:58I want to thank you for all the doors you've opened for women
04:01for entertaining us across all genres and mediums and for having me here today
04:08you are a legend you are my friend thank you
04:25that's what we're cementing today your hand of footprints and a lot of love
04:29over
04:29Let's see
04:32This is 3
04:32you
04:32You
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