![]() ![]() He is someone that is on a raft of regrets, but he is in a sea of hope and I've been at that sea, and I rode that wave lately and it's been powerful and good. Hunter, an incredible castmate like Huang Chao and Sadie Sink and Samantha Morgan, and I never would have believed I would have been offered the role by like - in this character, Charlie, in "The Whale". I had a chance to work with the last filmmaker, like Darren Aronofsky, and speak the words and empathy found Samuel D. ![]() If you told that guy back then that I would be standing right here, right now, I would not have believed you. It made me feel like I belonged - we're actors, we all want to belong to a tribe and that's when I found where I belonged. I will treasure this, but never more than what I treasured, that I used to keep in my wallet, which was my SAG card that I earned in 1991. It's sort of a naked man, making up his mind to smile or to frown. I'm - Ian McKellen told me to be good, brief and be seated. But if they try, I'll quote what Michelle said, shut up, I can beat you up.īRENDAN FRASER: Oh! I'm smiling and breathing and I have a job. That's all I'm going to say because otherwise we'll be kicked off the stage. And some people are even in Europe, who knows. And there was Leon James was one of the members, and he said to me and some other people, he said: It was not long ago when he and about a roomful of 30 people said what are we going to do? And that was the starting of SAG.Īnd look at you guys now, all of you, and all over America. JAMES HONG: I have to tell you this, when I was the board of director member, Charlton Heston was the president. But, you know, SAG is a wonderful organization. So I hope I will come back when I'm a hundred years old. But, of course, he's not Asian, but we excuse that. And they do crazy things like we play a little game before we start the day, you know? Those two Daniel boys, you know. Well, go see it a second and third time, and maybe you'll understand. Right? Did you understand all of it? I'm not sure. No, I don't know what they're thinking when they wrote that script. And I've never had such a good time as being with these jerks in this movie, you know.Īnd where's the producer? Raise your hand. ![]() In fact, that's my mother's - her name is Lady Shui Fa, Lee Shui Fa, so I feel very akin to her. But look at us now, huh?Īnd actually, we are not all Chinese, but Jamie Lee is a good Chinese. But back in those days, I have to tell you this, The Good Earth, the leading role was played by these guys with their eyes taped up like this, and they talked like this, because the producer said the Asians were not good enough and they are not box office. So I got my first SAG card - well, anyway, 70 years ago, true. And I hope next year the network will change their mind and put us on again. JAMES HONG: Actually, I said that because we might be broadcast in Hong Kong. MICHELLE YEOH: Translation: Friends, relative, and friends, so happy that you're all here tonight. Our patriarch, our friend, our Gong Gong, James Hong! And - and - and it's been 69 years in the making to get him to this stage. He has been acting since there were only - he's been acting since there were only 49 states, and he just turned 94, yes, James Hong. MICHELLE YEOH: But there is one of us who has been supporting ensembles for longer than any of us has been alive. We were also connected in supporting each other as a family at the same time. So while we were individually performing. KE HUY QUAN: Thank you, thank you, thank you. STEPHANIE HSU: The word "ensemble" comes from the Latin word for "at the same time." JAMIE LEE CURTIS: SAG-AFTRA members, on behalf of my crew of weirdos, we appreciate your support so much for this beautiful moment, this beautiful film, and all of your love and support. ![]()
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