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 -
===== SET 2.
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."
