Meryl Streep's Golden Globe's speech is truly global

Meryl Streep's Golden Globe's speech is truly global

Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe’s speech is truly global

 

“Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press.

But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mum in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London — no, in Ireland I do believe, and she’s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town Virginia.

Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.”

Art, cinema and the creative industry isn’t defined by geographical boundaries because the projection is universal, and it is the amalgamation of different cultures and backgrounds that bring to the fore amazing stories and breathtaking performances. In today’s time where there are a lot of attacks on the freedom of expression, Meryl Streep’s speech comes as a whiff of fresh air.

Here and Now 365‘s Managing Director Manish Tiwari said: “In the wake of many activities, which have taken place last year such as the banning of artists, there should be a global agreement to protect the freedom of movement of artists across the world.”

 

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