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Film producer Janet Yang delivers a speech during the unveiling ceremony for Lisa Lu's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, May 5, 2025, at 1708 Vine Street near the historic corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Film producer Janet Yang delivers a speech during the unveiling ceremony for Lisa Lu's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, May 5, 2025, at 1708 Vine Street near the historic corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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00:00Our first speaker is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Hollywood producer,
00:08and is currently the president of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.
00:14She is the first Asian American to hold that position.
00:19She came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun,
00:25followed by a long partnership with multiple Academy Award winner Oliver Stone,
00:31where she served as executive producer on the iconic Joy Luck Club,
00:36and is a producer on the Golden Globe-winning The People vs. Larry Flint.
00:41I can't imagine two different movies.
00:48All right.
00:51Most recently, she was an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated Over the Moon.
00:57Her other works include Dark Matter, The Weight of Water, High Crimes, Zero Effect, and Shanghai Calling.
01:04She was named one of the 50 most powerful women in Hollywood by The Hollywood Reporter,
01:10including in Varieties, Power of Women 2023, featured on the Forbes 2024 50 over 50 list.
01:19Please welcome Janet Lai Yang to the stage.
01:41Hello, Hollywood and Hollywood Boulevard.
01:44How are you all?
01:46What an honor to be here with this amazing woman in her resplendent gown.
01:50I'm dying to know where she got it made.
01:52We'll talk about that later.
01:55But I did want to say in Lisa Lou's many decades of acting across many continents in dozens of roles,
02:05one thing remains constant, her grace and elegance.
02:09She seems utterly unflappable and formidable, as she is today, as you can all see,
02:15but especially in the recent roles where she has played a grand matriarch.
02:21From the last emperor to the Joy Luck Club to crazy rich Asians,
02:27her quiet strength is at once intimidating but warm, fearsome but inviting.
02:33I feel like I have a special connection to Lisa, not only because I worked with her,
02:40but she attended the same university as my father.
02:45Right?
02:46When I see her, I sense more deeply my own ancestry and the generations that have come before me.
02:54The fact that Lisa has been able to break every barrier imaginable in Hollywood
03:00has been such a source of inspiration and courage for me.
03:05I am particularly grateful for her joining the cast of the Joy Luck Club,
03:09for she perfectly embodies the character of Aunt May
03:13and how she navigates the deep scars of her tragic past.
03:19Aunt May's mother was in a forced marriage and her eventual suicide profoundly informs her character.
03:28She is determined to not let her daughter fall into a similar trap.
03:34I'm going to wait for that truck to go by because it's loud.
03:38Like Aunt May, Lisa Liu is similarly tough and warm.
03:43At an amazing 98 years young, as we were just told, she seems to not ever skip a beat.
03:51Thank you, Lisa, for being a beacon of strength and wisdom and talent for so many of us.
03:58And congratulations on your incredible honor and your walk of fame.
04:03I am so proud to bear witness to this historic and splendid moment.