{"id":50674,"date":"2017-01-09T13:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50674"},"modified":"2017-01-09T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T03:03:33","slug":"actress-meryl-streep-flays-donald-trump-at-74th-golden-globes-awards-event-full-text-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50674","title":{"rendered":"Actress Meryl Streep Flays Donald Trump at 74th Golden Globes Awards Event: Full Text of Speech."},"content":{"rendered":"

(Text of Actress Meryl Streep’s Speech at the 74th Golden Globes Awards Event Held on January 8th 2017. Ms. Streep received the Cecil B De Mille Award at the function)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Meryl Streep ~ pic courtesy of: @latimes<\/p><\/div>\n

P<\/strong>lease sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You\u2019ll have to forgive me. I\u2019ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.<\/p>\n

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President Elect Donald J Trunp<\/p><\/div>\n

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:<\/p>\n

Hollywood, foreigners and the press.<\/p>\n

But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It\u2019s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper\u2019s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London \u2014 no, in Ireland I do believe, and she\u2019s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town Virginia.<\/p>\n

Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you\u2019ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.<\/p>\n

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They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor\u2019s 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, compassionate work.<\/p>\n

But 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.<\/p>\n

It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can\u2019t get it out of my head, because it wasn\u2019t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it\u2019s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody\u2019s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. O.K., go on with it.<\/p>\n

O.K., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage. That\u2019s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the 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\u2019re gonna need them going forward, and they\u2019ll need us to safeguard the truth.<\/p>\n

One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something \u2014 you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, \u201cIsn\u2019t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?\u201d 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 proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.<\/p>\n

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.<\/p>\n

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(Text of Actress Meryl Streep’s Speech at the 74th Golden Globes Awards Event Held on January 8th 2017. Ms. Streep received the Cecil B De Mille Award at the function) Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You\u2019ll have to forgive me. I\u2019ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And …<\/p>\n

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