Joaquin Phoenix 26th Annual SAG Awards Speech

Joaquin Phoenix honors Heath Ledger in 26th SAG Awards speech

Joaquin Phoenix receives the Actor® for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in JOKER (2019).

I was here many years ago and I couldn't fully appreciate it at the time. I now realized how fortunate I am to be a part of this community have such reverence for actors and what we do. I feel really honored to be here I'd like to just talk about a little bit about my fellow nominees. If that's a day when I started acting again and going to auditions I'd always get to like the final callback and I think many people know what that's like and there would always be like two other guys that I was up against and we'd always lose to this one kid and no actor would ever say his name because it was like too much but every casting director would whisper it not SIA Nardo who is this Leonardo you know you've been administration for over 25 years to me and so many people I thank you very very very much.

Christian, I don’t know where you are… Christian you commit to your roles in ways that I can only dream of I just you you never turn into bad performance. It's infuriating I wish you would one time just suck once be great okay.

I've been watching you the last few years and and you've just been turning in these beautiful, nuanced, incredible, profound performances and I'm just so moved by you and you were just devastating in this film and.. and you should be here

Aand Tarin where are you. I'm so happy for you wherever you are. hey hey man you're so beautiful in this. In this movie and I'm so happy for you and I can't wait to see what else you do and really I'm standing here on the the shoulders… of my favorite actor Heath Ledger. So, thank you and good night.

  

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