At last year’s Emmys, you’ll remember that Michelle Williams gave an incredible speech about equal pay. Now, at the Golden Globes, the actress again took the opportunity to make her speech political, defending a ‘woman’s right to choose’. Accepting an award for her role in Fosse/Verdon, she said that she is ‘grateful to have lived in a moment in our society where choice exists’ because for women and girls sometimes things ‘can happen to our bodies that are not our choice’.
The actor, who is currently pregnant with director Thomas Kail{
‘Now I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God or whoever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principles that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.’
The actress - who also has a 14-year-old daughter from her relationship with Heath Ledger - said that she wished all women from the age of ‘18 to 118’ will go out to vote in their ‘own self-interest’. ‘It’s what men have been doing for years,’ she added. ‘It’s what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them. But don’t forget we are the largest voting body in this country.’
The speech received a positive reaction, with Michelle’s friend, Busy Phillipps - who had an abortion at the age of 15 - watching tearfully from the audience. In a tweet, Reese Witherspoon also thanked her ‘for being a champion of women’.
Michelle beat Helen Mirren, Joey King, Kaitlyn Dever and Merritt Wever to take the trophy for playing Gwen Verdon, the dancer whose relationship with choreographer and director Bob Fosse was the centre of FX show Fosse/Verdon. Her partner, Kail, directed the series.
The Best Looks From The Golden Globes Red Carpet 2020
1 of 61Jennifer Aniston wearing Dior Haute Couture
2 of 61Phoebe Waller-Bridge in a sequin Ralph & Russo suit
3 of 61Ana de Armas wearing a sequin Ralph & Russo strapless gown
4 of 61Margot Robbie wearing Chanel Couture
5 of 61Kirsten Dunst wearing Rodarte
Dunst said she 'had a sleepover' with Rodarte's Laura Mulleavy, where the pair picked exactly which lace would be used for this dress.
6 of 61Anna Paquin wearing Dior
7 of 61Cynthia Erivo wearing custom Thom Browne
Erivo's custom Thom Browne dress took 11 people over 800 hours to create, with the designer embroidering her favourite flower – the peony – into the bottom.
8 of 61Andrew Scott
9 of 61Annabelle Wallis in Zuhair Murad
10 of 61Kaitlyn Dever wearing Valentino Haute Couture
11 of 61Dakota Fanning wearing Dior Couture
12 of 61Bel Powley in Miu Miu
13 of 61Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres, both wearing Celine
14 of 61Gillian Anderson in a white sculptural gown
15 of 61Greta Gerwig in Proenza Schouler
16 of 61Joey King wearing Iris Van Herpen
17 of 61Kate McKinnon in a Prabal Gurung black embellished suit
18 of 61Margaret Qualley wearing Chanel Couture
19 of 61Michelle Williams wearing Louis Vuitton
20 of 61Naomi Watts in Armani Privé
21 of 61Ricky Gervais with partner Jane Fallon
22 of 61Sofia Carson wearing Giambattista Valli Haute Couture
23 of 61Winnie Harlow wearing LaQuan Smith
24 of 61Zoey Deutch in a custom Fendi gown
25 of 61Billy Porter in a white suit with feather-trimmed jacket designed by Alex Vinash and Jimmy Choo boots
26 of 61Awkwafina wearing Dior Haute Couture
27 of 61Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson
28 of 61Cate Blanchett wearing Mary Katrantzou
29 of 61Charlize Theron wearing Dior
30 of 61Glenn Close in a blue velvet gown
31 of 61Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Fendi
32 of 61Helen Mirren in Dior Haute Couture
33 of 61J.Lo wearing a bow-adorned Valentino gown
34 of 61Jodie Comer in Mary Katrantzou
35 of 61Kerry Washington in Altuzarra
36 of 61Kit Harrington and Rosie Leslie
37 of 61Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa
38 of 61Lucy Boynton, wearing a custom Louis Vuitton gown and Rami Malek in Saint Laurent
39 of 61Michelle Pfeiffer
40 of 61Taylor Swift in Etro
41 of 61Rachel Brosnahan in Michael Kors
42 of 61Rachel Weisz in Tom Ford
43 of 61Reese Witherspoon wearing Roland Mouret
44 of 61Rooney Mara in Givenchy
45 of 61Sacha Baron Cohen in an electric blue suit with Isla Fisher in Monique Lhuillier
46 of 61Saoirse Ronan in a glittering Celine gown
47 of 61Shailene Woodley in a Balmain dress
48 of 61Scarlett Johansson wearing a scarlet Vera Wang gown
49 of 61Zoe Kravitz wearing Saint Laurent
50 of 61Elton John and David Furnish
51 of 61Sienna Miller wearing Gucci
52 of 61Laura Dern wearing Saint Laurent
53 of 61Nicole Kidman in a red Versace gown
54 of 61Olivia Colman wearing a red Emilia Wickstead gown with exaggerated puff sleeves
55 of 61Priyanka Chopra in Prada with Nick Jonas
56 of 61Renee Zellweger in Armani
57 of 61Salma Hayek wearing a Gucci dress
58 of 61Tiffany Haddish wearing a dress by Israeli designer Galia Lahav
59 of 61Gugu Mbatha-Raw wearing Gucci
60 of 61Amy Poehler in a custom Sergio Hudson Collection dress
61 of 61Beanie Feldstein in Oscar de la Renta
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