Golden Globes : Le discours poignant d’Oprah Winfrey.

written by Solène 8 janvier 2018

Cette nuit avait lieu la 75ème cérémonie des Golden Globes, récompensant les films et séries diffusés en 2017. La soirée a piqué l’Affaire Weinstein et encensée la vague « me too » et le mouvement « Time’s up ». Les femmes pour l’occasion étaient vêtues de noir et les speechs ont été marquants.

J’ai pleuré de bon matin. J’ai ouvert mon ordinateur et j’ai cherché à savoir qui avait gagné quoi aux Golden Globes et voir ~~sur qui je pourrais bitcher~~ ce que je pourrais en dire pour commencer la semaine. Mais je me suis arrêté net. Oprah m’a arraché des larmes, et j’ai oublié le reste.

Les femmes à l’honneur.

Reese Witherspoon et Nicole Kidman pour Big Little Lies ou encore Elisabeth Moss pour The Handmaid’s Tale (La servante écarlate – série adapté du roman de Margaret Atwood), ont été récompensées pour leurs divers talents et ont livré des discours poignants.

« Je voudrais remercier tous ceux qui ont brisé la loi du silence l’année dernière, qui ont osé parler d’abus, d’harcèlement. Vous êtes si courageux ! (…) Time’s up, nous vous entendons, nous vous voyons et nous raconterons vos histoires » Reese Witherspoon

Oprah Présidente !

Lors de la remise du prix Cecil B. DeMille qui récompense des artistes pour l’ensemble de leur carrière dans l’industrie cinématographique, Oprah Winfrey à clamé haut et fort « Their time is up » en référence au mouvement Times’s up lancé le 1er janvier 2018 par les grands noms féminins d’Hollywood contre le harcèlement sexuel au travail. Le vent est en train de tourner, et ça nous plait. Ca nous plait énormément.

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Ce n’est pas tant son discours, aussi fort puisse t’il être, c’est ce sentiment de temps révolu. « Time is up ». Et on y croit. Oui. Je crois que nous avons fait un pas en avant vers l’égalité, la ou le mot féminisme prend tout son sens. Nous n’aurons plus peur de dénoncer les harceleurs ou aider, soutenir, défendre la cause féministe car nous savons aujourd’hui que même les plus puissants peuvent tomber.

Les femmes, une fois de plus, se sont levées et j’ai très envie de croire, même si vous pourriez me reprocher ma naïveté, que tout ceci n’était pas du cinéma.

Je vous livre ci-dessous le discours complet d’Oprah en anglais :

In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: « The winner is Sidney Poitier. » Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black, and I had never seen a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people’s houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation in Sidney’s performance in « Lilies of the Field »: »Amen, amen, amen, amen. »

In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award. It is an honor — it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson who took a chance on me for « A.M. Chicago. » Quincy Jones who saw me on that show and said to Steven Spielberg, « Yes, she is Sophia in ‘The Color Purple.' » Gayle who has been the definition of what a friend is, and Stedman who has been my rock — just a few to name.

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because we all know the press is under siege these days. We also know it’s the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To — to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before as we try to navigate these complicated times, which brings me to this: what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year we became the story.

But it’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace. So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business. They’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.

And there’s someone else, Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped, and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died ten days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up.

Their time is up. And I just hope — I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented, goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks’ heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it’s here with every woman who chooses to say, « Me too. » And every man — every man who chooses to listen.

In my career, what I’ve always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere and how we overcome. I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights. So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say « Me too » again.

(Source : Cnn Entertainment)

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