Patty Jenkins speech at Christina Ricci's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony

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00:00Patti Jenkins to the stage.

00:04Hello.

00:05Well, first of all, I just want to say when Christina reached out to me to do this, I'm

00:19so honored.

00:20I like, I can't tell you, I'm going to get teary because you hold such a special place

00:25in my heart.

00:27And I mean, what was shocking to me was I can't believe that you don't already have

00:3240 stars, you know, because that we just heard that long list of credits.

00:38Now I have them here too.

00:40And when I, because I, you know, I didn't know whether they were going to be mentioned

00:43or not.

00:44And I was like, my God, this, so a Hollywood walk of fame, they honor so many different

00:51things.

00:52But I think that because Hollywood is so famous as a film town, the place of these stars in

00:56cinema is something that we all really associate it with.

01:00And every single person who dreamed of being in movies as a kid or making movies as a kid,

01:05this is a special thing, you know, to have this star.

01:10And it really takes like one great memory or impression to be somebody who deserves

01:16one of those stars.

01:17But Christina has like 59, like what's going on with that?

01:22You actually have done 59 movies.

01:24That's movies.

01:25That's short films or television.

01:27Like it's insane.

01:28And they're so good and so very, very different.

01:33And so, you know, I was lucky enough to get to make Monster with Christina and it was

01:40such a profoundly beautiful experience.

01:43And I, I have always felt that actually it was such an incredibly brave performance that

01:50Christina gave, that because what Charlize did was so shocking to everybody that it never

01:57got talked about enough, that you really, you took, you took the unglamorous, unlikable

02:02role and you played it with such commitment.

02:06And it's such a stunning performance.

02:09Every time I rewatch the film, I'm like, my God, Christina is like a hero.

02:13She knew she was never, you even, we talked about it at the time.

02:15You were like, it's not the glory roll for me, but I believe in the project.

02:19And you took one for the team and you played this glorious thing to set up somebody else's

02:23performance.

02:24Incredible.

02:25But the interesting thing about how Christina got cast was, I actually thought Christina

02:30was too good looking for the role because we'd already, I'd already cast Charlize Theron

02:34and you know, we were already the laughing stock.

02:37People thought, you know, Charlize Theron before they saw what we were going to do.

02:42But actually I did a chemistry to, I'd be so lucky to get her to say yes.

02:47The interesting thing was when I did a chemistry test with Christina and Charlize, I was like,

02:53nothing I'd ever seen.

02:54I have seen Charlize around a million people.

02:56She's a big, powerful presence, can be very intimidating.

03:00And people just disappeared around her.

03:02I would put her opposite other people and they would just go silent.

03:06And I remember so young, you're so young at the time, and in comes Charlize, you know,

03:10big energy and in comes Christina, okay, thank you.

03:14And I was like, oh my God, this is the most secretly powerful person I have ever seen

03:20in my life.

03:21She's a dynamo.

03:23She's so intelligent.

03:25She clearly has such good taste.

03:28And the last thing I want to say is really to act, I think people don't always understand

03:32what acting is.

03:33You have to live those parts.

03:35Some part of you has to take that into your spirit.

03:38I know that when we did Monster, it was very taxing because that story actually has to

03:41kind of live and breathe inside of you.

03:44I'm so grateful for the amount of different characters that you've taken on and the things

03:49that you've done for us as an artist.

03:53And I honor it.

03:54I love you so much, Christina.

03:56I'm so honored to be here.

03:57I'm so proud of you and the career that you have made.

04:01And I've loved watching you every step of the way.

04:03So congratulations, Christina.

04:05I love you.

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