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The actress revealed how the politician has broken her heart

Meryl Streep's jaw-dropping speech at the Golden Globes 2017 has caused quite a storm.

When she took to the stage to collect the Cecil B DeMille award, which honoured her contribution to the world of entertainment, the actress lashed out at Donald Trump.

She went on to reference an incident during which the US President-elect appeared to mock a disabled reporter last year saying: "It broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of my head."

TRy to answer these questions. SET 1.
 Q1- After thanking them...What is the first thing she asks the audience? Q2. Why will the audience forgive her?  Q3. Why does she have to read?  Q4. what is Hollywood anyway?
  Q5. "I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey." she says.Other people... What types of certificates need to live in the USA?
 Q6. What can you understand about these people.·       Viola [Davis] - a-cabin in S. C., and  in  Long Island.
·       Sarah Paulson  - mom.
·       Sarah Jessica Parker - kids
·       Amy Adams  - Italy.
·       Natalie Portman -
  

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Listen what she says about Hollywood and take notes. Share them with mates.

 

=====   SET 1. == KEY Q1- After thanking them...What is the first thing she asks the audience? Please sit down. Please sit down. Q2. Why will the audience forgive her? I’ve lost my voice (in screaming and lamentation this weekend.) You’ll have to forgive me. Q3. Why does she have to read? I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year. Q4. what is Hollywood anyway?
 It’s just a bunch of people from other places. Q5. "I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey." she says.Other people... What types of certificates need to live in the USA?
 their birth certificates? Q6. Waht can you understand about these people.·       Viola [Davis] - a-cabin in South Carolina, and  in  Long Island.
·       Sarah Paulson  - mom.
·       Sarah Jessica Parker - kids
·       Amy Adams  - Italy.
·       Natalie Portman -
  Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, and grew up in Central falls, Long Island.
Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn.
Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio.
Amy Adams was born in Venetto Italy.Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem.

SET 2.

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

  
"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. 

They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, passionate work. 

"There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. 

It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. 

It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life."And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. 

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. 

"This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we’re going to need them going forward. And they’ll need us to safeguard the truth. 

"One more thing. Once when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something, we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor. Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. 

"As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you."

script of Meryl's speech here:

"Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please sit down. Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year. So I have to read.

"Thank you, Hollywood foreign press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. But who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places.

"I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, and grew up in Central falls, Long Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy.

Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in — no, in Ireland, I do believe. And she’s here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, passionate work.

"There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.

"And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

"This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we’re going to need them going forward. And they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.

"One more thing. Once when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something, we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor. Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.

"As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you."