23/2/2025
Crédito: Netflix
Crédito: Netflix
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00:00Jane, even though we somehow get to call you our colleague, you are absolutely right.
00:29You are absolutely peerless.
00:31It's my honor to present the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award to you, the sublime Jane Fonda.
00:38Wow. Wow.
01:04This means the world to me.
01:06What about the sound system?
01:08I'm going to talk loud.
01:10This means the world to me.
01:13You can't know.
01:14Thank you, SAG-AFTRA.
01:18Wow, and your enthusiasm makes this seem, I don't know, less like a late twilight of my life and more like a go-girl kick-ass.
01:32Which is good, because I'm not done.
01:40You know, I have had a really weird career.
01:46Totally not, as my agents there at that table will testify to, totally unstrategic.
01:52I retired for 15 years, and then I came back at 65, which is not usual.
01:59I made one of my most successful movies in my 80s, and probably in my 90s I'll be doing my own stunts in an action movie.
02:12Have you ever heard the phrase, how does it go?
02:16Yeah, it's okay to be a late bloomer as long as you don't miss the flower show.
02:22I'm a late bloomer.
02:24This is the flower show.
02:27Yeah.
02:30I love acting.
02:33We get to open people's minds to new ideas.
02:37Take them beyond what they understand of the world, and help them laugh when things are tough, like now.
02:45And for a woman like me, who grew up in the 40s and 50s when women weren't supposed to have opinions and get angry,
02:53acting gave me a chance to play angry women with opinions.
02:57Which, as you know, is a bit of a stretch for me.
03:04I'm a big believer in unions.
03:07Yeah.
03:11They have our backs.
03:16They bring us into community, and they give us power.
03:22Community means power.
03:25And this is really important right now, when workers' power is being attacked and community is being weakened.
03:37Yes.
03:39But SAG-AFTRA is different than most other unions.
03:45Because us, the workers, we actors, we don't manufacture anything tangible.
03:53What we create is empathy.
03:57Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls.
04:06We know why they do what they do.
04:09We feel their joys and their pains.
04:12And I can conjure up voices.
04:27We have to drill deep, don't we?
04:30We have to know, for example, if a young woman is cutting, or she's a sex worker,
04:39there's a good chance that as a young girl she was sexually abused or incested.
04:44Right?
04:45I'm thinking Brie Daniels and Clute.
04:48And I'm sure many of you guys have played bullies and misogynists.
04:56And you can pretty much know, you actors, right, that probably their father bullied them
05:02and called men that he felt were weak, he called them losers or pussies.
05:08And while you may hate the behavior of your character,
05:12you have to understand and empathize with the traumatized person you're playing, right?
05:19I'm thinking Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice.
05:29Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke.
05:32And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.
05:38Back to empathy.
05:46A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way.
05:55And even if they're of a different political persuasion,
05:58we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts.
06:06And welcome them into our tent.
06:09Because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what's coming at us.
06:23I made my first movie in 1958.
06:26It was the tail end of McCarthyism, when so many careers were destroyed.
06:33Today it's helpful to remember, though, that Hollywood resisted.
06:37We did.
06:39Overseas, brave American producers like Hannah Weinstein hired blacklisted writers.
06:46Myrna Lloyd, John Huston, and Billy Wilder founded the Committee for the First Amendment.
06:52They had a radio show on ABC radio called Hollywood Fights Back.
07:00Members of the committee included every big-name actor in town.
07:08Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements,
07:14like apartheid or our civil rights movement or Stonewall,
07:18and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge?
07:24Would you have been able to take the hoses and the batons and the dogs?
07:30We don't have to wonder anymore, because we are in our documentary moment.
07:37This is it.
07:39And it's not a rehearsal.
07:45This is it.
07:48And we mustn't for a moment kid ourselves about what's happening.
07:54This is big-time serious, folks.
07:58So let's be brave.
08:00This is a good time for a little Norma Rae or Karen Silkwood or Tom Joad.
08:07We must not isolate.
08:09We must stay in community.
08:12We must help the vulnerable.
08:15We must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future,
08:19one that is beckoning, welcoming,
08:22that will help people believe that, to quote the novelist Pearl Cleague,
08:26on the other side of the conflagration, there will still be love,
08:31there will still be beauty,
08:34and there will be an ocean of truth for us to swim in.
08:39Let's make it so.
08:42Thank you for this encouragement.