Patty Jenkins speaks at Christina Ricci's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony

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00:00Hello. Well first of all I just want to say when Christina reached out to me to

00:05do this I'm so honored. I like I can't tell you I'm gonna get teary because you

00:10hold such a special place in my heart and I mean what was shocking to me was I

00:17can't believe that you don't already have 40 stars you know because that we

00:22just heard that long list of credits now I have them here too and when I because

00:27I you know I didn't know whether they were gonna be mentioned or not and I was

00:30like my god this so a Hollywood Walk of Fame they honor so many different things

00:38but I think that because Hollywood is so famous as a film town the the place of

00:42these stars in cinema is something that we all really associate it with and

00:46every single person who dreamed of being in movies as a kid or making movies as a

00:51kid this is a special thing you know to have this star and and it really takes

00:58like one great memory or impression to be somebody who deserves one of those

01:03stars but Christina has like 59 like what's going on with that you actually

01:09have done 59 movies that's movies that's not short films or television like it's

01:14insane and they're so good and so very very different and so you know I was

01:22lucky enough to get to make Monster with Christina and it was such a profoundly

01:28beautiful experience and I I have always felt that actually it was such an

01:35incredibly brave performance that Christina gave that because what

01:39Charlize did was so shocking to everybody that it never got talked about

01:44enough that you really you took you took the unglamorous unlikable role and you

01:50played it with such commitment and it's such a stunning performance every time I

01:56rewatch the film I'm like my god Christina's like a hero she knew she was

02:00never you even we talked about it at the time you were like it's not the glory

02:03role for me but I believe in the project and you took one for the team and you

02:07played this glorious thing to set up somebody else's performance incredible

02:11but the interesting thing about how Christina got cast was I actually

02:16thought Christina was too good-looking for the role because we'd already cast

02:20Charlize Theron and you know we were already the laughingstock it people

02:24thought you know Charlize Theron before they saw what we were gonna do but

02:28actually I did a chemistry time be so lucky to get her to say yes the

02:34interesting thing was when I did a chemistry test with Christina and

02:38Charlize I was like nothing I'd ever seen I have seen Charlize around a

02:42million people she's a big powerful presence can be very intimidating and

02:46people just disappeared around her I would put her opposite other people and

02:50they would just go silent and I remember so young you're so young at the time and

02:55in comes Charlize you know big energy and in comes Christina okay thank you

03:00and I was like oh my god this is the most secretly powerful person I have

03:06ever seen in my life she's a dynamo she's so intelligent she clearly has

03:12such good taste and the last thing I want to say is really to act I think

03:18people don't always understand what acting is you have to live those parts

03:21some part of you has to take that into your spirit I know that when we did

03:25monster it was very taxing because that story actually has to kind of live and

03:29breathe inside of you I'm so grateful for the amount of different characters

03:33that you've taken on and the the things that you've done for us as an artist and

03:39I honor it I love you so much Christina I'm so honored to be here I'm so proud

03:45of you and the career that you have made and I've loved watching you every step

03:49of the way so congratulations Christina I love you

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