TRANSCRIPT
- Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to present the award for Best Actress to my dear friend Glenn Close.
(applause) (dramatic violin music) - I feel so privileged to be here in this room with these incredible artists, and I feel like I'm standing on the shoulders of many women.
One of them, Shirley, sitting right there.
(applause) All the people who inspired me when I was little, I'm standing on the shoulders of the witch in Snow White.
Probably informed me in more ways than I'm aware of.
I'm standing on the shoulders of my mother and my two grandmothers.
I want to thank Bjorn Runge, who directed this movie so beautifully, and lit our faces, and trusted us to do what we do.
I want to thank my inspired partner Jonathan Pryce.
You can't have a movie called The Wife without the husband, and he was incredible.
And we did our work kind of for a week around the table before we all started filming, and then we just played, and I love it when we talk about how actors play.
There's a wonderful book written by, oh I forgot, Richard Eyre, and he says that Olivier once said: If you scratch an actor, you'll find an actor.
But he said, I beg to differ.
I think if you scratch an actor, you find a child.
Not someone who is childish, but someone who is childlike, who maintains the ability to play.
So thank you so much for all my fellow players in this incredible, incredible profession.
(applause)
