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00:00Wow. This means the world to me. What about the sound system? I'm going to talk loud.
00:14This means the world to me. You can't know. Thank you SAG-AFTRA. Thank you. Wow. And your
00:23enthusiasm makes this seem, I don't know, less like a late twilight of my life and more
00:29like a go-girl kick-ass. Which is good because I'm not done. You know, I have had a really
00:48weird career. Totally not, as my agents there at that table will testify to, totally unstrategic.
00:56I retired for 15 years and then I came back at 65, which is not usual, and I made one
01:03of my most successful movies in my 80s. And probably in my 90s, I'll be doing my own stunts
01:11in an action movie. You know, have you ever heard the phrase, how does it go? Yeah, it's
01:21okay to be a late bloomer as long as you don't miss the flower show. I'm a late bloomer.
01:28This is the flower show. Yeah. I love acting. We get to open people's minds to new ideas.
01:41Take them beyond what they understand of the world and help them laugh when things are
01:46tough, like now. And for a woman like me, who grew up in the 40s and 50s when women
01:53weren't supposed to have opinions and get angry, acting gave me a chance to play angry
01:59women with opinions. Which, as you know, is a bit of a stretch for me. But I'm a big believer
02:09in unions. Yeah. They have our backs. They bring us into community and they give us power.
02:27Community means power. And this is really important right now, when workers' power is
02:37being attacked and community is being weakened. Yes. But SAG-AFTRA is different than most
02:47other unions, because us, the workers, we actors, we don't manufacture anything tangible.
02:57What we create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly
03:08that we can touch their souls. We know why they do what they do. We feel their joys and
03:15their pain. And I can conjure up voices. We have to drill deep, don't we? We have to
03:36know, for example, if a young woman is cutting or she's a sex worker, there's a good chance
03:44that as a young girl she was sexually abused or incested, right? I'm thinking Brie Daniels
03:50and Clute. And I'm sure many of you guys have played bullies and misogynists. And you can
04:01pretty much know, you actors, right, that probably their father bullied them and called
04:07men that he felt were weak, he called them losers or pussies. And while you may hate
04:14the behavior of your character, you have to understand and empathize with the traumatized
04:21person you're playing, right? I'm thinking Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice. Make no
04:33mistake, empathy is not weak or woke. And by the way, woke just means you give a damn
04:39about other people. Back to empathy. A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt
04:56by what is happening, what is coming our way. And even if they're of a different political
05:01persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts
05:11and welcome them into our tent, because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully
05:18what's coming at us. I made my first movie in 1958. It was the tail end of McCarthyism,
05:33when so many careers were destroyed. Today, it's helpful to remember, though, that Hollywood
05:41resisted. We did. Overseas, brave American producers like Hannah Weinstein hired blacklisted
05:49writers. Myrna Loy, John Huston, and Billy Wilder founded the Committee for the First
05:55Amendment. They had a radio show on ABC radio called Hollywood Fights Back. Members of the
06:04committee included every big-name actor in town. Have any of you ever watched a documentary
06:16of one of the great social movements, like apartheid or our civil rights movement or
06:21Stonewall, and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? Would
06:29you have been able to take the hoses and the batons and the dogs? We don't have to
06:35wonder anymore, because we are in our documentary moment. This is it, and it's not a rehearsal.
06:50This is it, and we mustn't for a moment kid ourselves about what's happening. This is
07:00big-time serious, folks, so let's be brave. This is a good time for a little Norma Rae
07:08or Karen Silkwood or Tom Jode. We must not isolate. We must stay in community. We must
07:17help the vulnerable. We must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future,
07:24one that is beckoning, welcoming, that will help people believe that, to quote the novelist
07:29Pearl Cleague, on the other side of the conflagration, there will still be love, there will still
07:37be beauty, and there will be an ocean of truth for us to swim in. Let's make it so. Thank
07:47you for this encouragement. Thank you.