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Sarah Michelle Gellar's speech at Christian Slater's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony
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Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar's speech at Christian Slater's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony on Monday, June 10, 2025, at 6201 Hollywood Blvd. in front of Eastown in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Thank you for the kind introduction. Thank you. Okay, I'm a wee bit shorter. Greetings and salutations.
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Those were the three words that introduced me to Christian Slater. Delivered with his signature
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crooked smile and that gleam of mischief in his eyes, Christian didn't just enter the pop culture
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conversation, he kicked down the door. I had never seen a performance like his JD. It defined the Gen X
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counterculture. It was the anti-John Hughes protagonist, a villain I couldn't help but be
00:44
fascinated by. Needless to say, there was more than one Christian Slater poster hanging in my teenage
00:51
bedroom. Sorry if I just made that weird, Brittany. I'm not going to list every amazing performance
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of his career, because we'd be here all day and someone else just did a much better job than I
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would, but please indulge me in a few of my favorites. As a pirate radio DJ in Pump Up the Volume,
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his character was all about challenging conformity and igniting suburban teen rebellion.
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Talk hard, he said. And we listened. As Clarence in True Romance, Christian struck the perfect balance
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between gentle lover and reckless outlaw. That movie was full of big stars like Christopher Walken,
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Dennis Hopper, Brad Pitt, but Christian as Clarence carried the emotional weight of that film.
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Christian kept making more big movies with huge stars, but he also started bringing his immense
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talent to the small screen. In series like Dr. Death, we saw him as a cocky champion of patients' rights,
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and in Dirty John, he played a husband so nuanced, so real, that you're never quite sure if he's the
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villain or not. In Mr. Robot, he became the voice of a whole new generation, the digitally alienated.
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Not many actors can claim to have been culturally significant across four decades.
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I consider myself incredibly lucky to be in the list of people who have had the pleasure of working
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with Christian, and honestly just as lucky to be one of the millions who has been moved by and
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represented in his incredibly diverse body of work. Most actors can only dream of having a career as
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long as yours, Christian. And the truly amazing part of it is that you continue to redefine how we see you.
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You are an actor with multiple legacies who will feel like just as fresh of a discovery to teenagers
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watching you for the first time 20 years from now as you did when I first saw you. Let's just say it
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was 20 years ago. I mean, I'm an actor, you know, we don't all have to be good at math. All of this to say,
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fair is fair. The honor is richly deserved a dozen times over, and I am so proud to be here celebrating
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with you. Congratulations.
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