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SAG Nominees React

Posted Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 - Comments Off on SAG Nominees React
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This film has been such a wonderful and personal journey. I think it hits so close to home for many people, making the incredible response so special.  I’m honored to be nominated by SAG not only because they are my peers, but also because I’m overwhelmed to be recognized alongside actors whose work I admire so much. I’ve been lucky enough to be a working actor for almost 10 years and the mere fact that people can finally pronounce my name is pretty exciting! I share this with the whole Brooklyn family. – Saoirse Ronan

“I am honestly in shock and just tickled pink that this happened.   My first thought was that I can’t believe my Mom isn’t here to see this.  I wish I believed she is somewhere seeing it.  Maybe for today, I will.”
–          Sarah Silverman/I SMILE BACK, nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
“Thank you so very much to SAG. I feel greatly honored, especially as this is coming from my peers. It really does mean a lot to me.”

–Michael Fassbender 
“This makes me very very happy. I am truly thrilled and grateful to be nominated for a SAG award this year. This really means a lot to me.”
–Kate Winslet 

“It means a great deal to be recognised by my peers during such a wonderful year of filmmaking. The Danish Girl took a long while to get made and I am damn lucky that I ended up having the honour of helping bring Lili and Gerda’s story to the screen. I am hugely grateful to Tom Hooper, Alicia Vikander, and our incredible cast for this truly unique collaboration. I certainly wouldn’t have been able to play Lili were it not for the generosity of the trans women and men who helped me prepare for this role; I am indebted to all of them and the community. My thanks to SAG-AFTRA members for this nomination.”

— Eddie Redmayne

“It’s very meaningful to be honored with the respect of my peers. I love the Guild – I’ve been a member for 23 years, and I’ve felt lucky every one of those years to be a part of it.”
–          Michael Shannon/99 HOMES, nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
“Wow I’m just floored and humbled right now.  It’s such a huge honor to be recognized by my friends and peers and for two projects that have really been such an important part of my life, Luther and Beasts of No Nation.  It goes without saying that my performance is shared with the tremendous actors I work with. Congratulations to Abraham Attah, Kurt Egyiawan and the rest of the amazing cast from BEASTS!”
Idris Elba was nominated in the following categories:
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
    • Commandant – BEASTS OF NO NATION / Netflix
  • Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture – BEASTS OF NO NATION / Netflix
    • Abraham Attah – Agu
    • Kurt Egyiawan – 2nd I-C
    • Idris Elba – Commandant
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
    • John Luther – LUTHER / BBC America

 

 

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon