Oscar winner Morgan Freeman delivered a short speech that touched on Hollywood’s gender inequality debate while accepting the guild’s life achievement award.
“I wasn’t going to do this; I’m going to tell you what’s wrong with this statue,” he said. “It works from the back, but from the front, it’s gender specific. Maybe I started something.”
After getting a standing ovation, Freeman took the stage and said, “This is beyond honor, this is a place in history.”
He thanked SAG-AFTRA, his children, his business partner, his life partner, and Rita Moreno, who presented Freeman the honor — returning the favor after he gave her the award in 2014. She said the two have known each other for 50 years, having first worked together on the 1971 educational children’s series “The Electric Company.”
