00:00Welcome to your intervention everyone. Surprise. Does anyone have a question?
00:12I do. Hi Patricia. Right over here to your left. Left. Hi. We're here with
00:17Spectrum News. When we had a chance to talk to you on the carpet, you had a
00:20really meaningful conversation with me about your advocacy for climate change
00:23and keeping the planet clean for our children. In your acceptance speech you
00:27talked about trans rights as well. You seem to use your platform for causes, to
00:31advocate for causes that are very passionate, you're passionate about. Can
00:34you talk to us about you using your celebrity to shine light on these
00:38important issues? I really feel like it's not so much my advocacy for climate
00:43change as much as it is those kids who blew my mind, who showed up, you know,
00:49millions of them across the world to say we want a world to live in, we want a
00:54future to believe in and they're right and we need to give that to them and it's
00:59very shameful I think for us as adults that we haven't provided that for them.
01:04As far as my speech tonight, I'm having a wonderful time in my career. I never saw
01:10it coming. I'm 51 years old. I'm getting the greatest, you know, roles of my life
01:16working with the greatest people but also because I've been working so much I
01:20haven't completely processed my sister Alexis's death and I think sometimes we
01:25like, you know, as an actor or anybody you try to act like everything's fine but
01:29the truth is for days I've been talking to my family about wow I'm really starting
01:34to feel this heavy grief. I feel like I'm just starting to process this. So to be
01:39there tonight would be inauthentic really to not talk about my whole self and where I am, where my heart
01:48is,
01:49where my thoughts are. I really miss my sister and I really want to help create a
01:55world where, you know, trans women of color live on the lowest amount of any
02:00group of people in America under $10,000 a year in deep poverty. Trans people in
02:06America have a life expectancy of 35 years. So that's not acceptable and still jokes are
02:14common and we don't see people getting employed everywhere. You don't see them
02:19anywhere you're you're going to buy things. So we need to really change this
02:23and I think we can change it rapidly if we care to and I care to and I want to
02:29make the world a better place for all the kids today.
02:34Thank you. Patricia Patricia. Hi. Hello. Hi. Good to see you. Hi. Look your activism can't surprise anybody. You were
02:43you were brought out that way.
02:46Yeah. When you say these are the greatest roles of your life a lot of us think the
02:52stuff you did before was sensational and these roles are women very different from
02:58you and and must challenge you in a different way but do you look back on
03:05that that younger you that we also all admired and not appreciate do you
03:11appreciate what you did? Of course I do and I think you know with youth and falling
03:15in love and sexuality of youth that's a wonderful story too and I think it has a
03:20place there and I'm grateful that I was hired at that time and that I worked with
03:25amazing filmmakers and I I've had this opportunity throughout my career but the
03:31reality is in this business in general in your 50s as a woman you were put out to
03:36pasture so I was kind of preparing for the time to come when I was going to be put
03:42out to pasture by this business or I had to look like some you know trying to look
03:47like a 20 year old so I'm very glad that I'm actually alive in a time where there
03:54are so many interesting projects and roles I don't think it was that common it
03:58was more common in television for women but now it seems to be changing
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