Herself - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient: [on Donald Trump] An actor's job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sanks 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. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of my head. Because it wasn't it in a movie, it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful... it filters down into everyone's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrepsect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined its press and its freedom in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting a committe to protect journalists, because we're gonna need them going forward, and they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
