Michelle Williamshas taken home the 2020 Golden Globe award forFosse/Verdonmonths after picking up an Emmy for the same performance — andjust as she did at the Emmys, she made a powerful speech about amplifying women’s voices.
Williams used her time onstage while accepting the award to applaud a woman’s right to choose and to urge women to “vote in [their] own self-interest.”
The actress said that she is grateful to have had freedom of choice, which enabled her to have the life and career she does today.
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“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I can stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over,” she said. “Sometimes, messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise. But one that I had carved with my own hand, and I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose.”
“So, women 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest,” Williams said. “It’s what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them, but don’t forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”
Backstage, Williams elaborated a bit more on her emotional speech.
Williams played Verdon toSam Rockwell‘s Bob Fosse, and the win marks her second Golden Globe award. She last won in 2012 forMy Week with Marilyn. Williams also has four Oscar nominations under her belt.
The actress made headlines earlier this week when a source confirmed to PEOPLE she isexpecting her second child, her first with fiancé andHamiltondirector Thomas Kail.
The actress shared Matilda with the late actorHeath Ledger.
Kail directed Williams in the dramaFosse/Verdon,for which she won the Emmy Award for lead actress. The director is close friends withLin-Manuel Mirandaand directed his musicalIn the Heightson Broadway. He also won an Emmy for directingGrease: Live.
The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony is airing live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 5.
source: people.com
