It’s not easy going first, but Nicole Kidman makes it look easy.
The actress accepted the first Golden Globes award for the night, best actress in a miniseries, for her role in HBO’s Big Little Lies and immediately set the tone for the evening with her speech.
Kidman played Celeste Wright, a high flying lawyer who was a victim of domestic violence.
After shouting out to her daughters, Faith and Sunday Rose, Kidman thanked her co-stars, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz and Shailene Woodley.
"Reese, we did this because of our friendship and our creative union, Laura, Zoe and Shailene, we sat at a table and pledged allegiance and commitment to each other and this is ours to share. The power of women. Wow," she said.
She had co-star Reese Witherspoon almost in tears.
In the short time she was given, Kidman gave a tribute to her mother and addressed Hollywood's current abuse problem.
"My mumma was an advocate in the women's movement when I was growing up and it's because of her I'm standing here. My sister Antonia and I say thank you for what you fought so hard for," she said.
"Big Little Lies focuses on the centre of conversation - abuse. I do believe and hope that we can elicit change through the stories we tell and how we tell them."
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And she couldn't finish without thanking her husband, singer Keith Urban.
"When my cheek is against yours, everything else melts away and that is love," she said.
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God these women make me sick! They stand there with their multimillions spouting platitudes (talk's cheap so are hash tags) and receive applause for what exactly?
What are they actually doing besides wearing black dresses?
Is Nicole Kidman doing anything real, like actually visiting outback aboriginal communities to see the absolute desperation and abuse of the women and children there? Of course not!
No, they dress up, stand on a stage, clasping a statue, doing what they do best - acting, and we are supposed to applaud.
Well fortunately outside the entertainment bubble people see them for the hypocrites they are.
"Is Nicole Kidman doing anything real, like actually visiting outback
aboriginal communities to see the absolute desperation and abuse of the
women and children there?"
If all the people who criticise celebrities similarly for this kind of thing were themselves doing 'something real' .... well, I'd be very surprised indeed.
I would suggest that showing up to work every day to portray characters in difficult and distressing circumstances, knowing you will be critiqued by a large audience in the public arena, takes a certain amount of courage. Nicole tries to take on roles that teach something to the audience - not every day is wearing a black dress at an awards ceremony.
Unfortunately Sheena, many people would if they could but most of us are tied to jobs because we have mortgages and endless bills coming in; and besides we are not the ones endlessly hashtagging and making grand speeches and empty gestures.