Yahoo Movies Give Jason Sudeikis's Golden Globes Speech a Golden Globe
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. That's how the old adage goes, but as a rebuttal to the idea that you cannot succeed simply by winging things, we give you Jason Sudeikis's Golden Globes acceptance speech. During the very glitchy 2021 ceremony, Sudeikis seemed genuinely shellshocked that he had been announced the winner of the best actor in a musical or comedy series, despite, as he pointed out in an interview later, having a one in five chance of glory.
.@jasonsudeikis wins for Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy at the #GoldenGlobes! pic.twitter.com/kJyyfRcH6g
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) March 1, 2021
His speech, which will surely be analysed by psychedelic research centres around the world, in full:
"That’s nuts. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is, for me, the coolest thing that a group of, you know, like, that’s nuts…. Especially… that’s crazy. OK, umm. Alright. Wow. Here’s what I’ll say. I’ll say this. I want to thank everybody that works on the show. I read this book to my son Otis called The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy. He has these three questions, like, ‘When’s the best time to do things?’ ‘What is the right thing to do?’ And then, ‘Who is the most important one?’
That last question, ‘Who is the most important one,’ is like, whoever the person you’re with. So I kinda reject the premise of being the best actor, because in my humble opinion the best actor is the person you’re acting with.
I want to give this as a shout-out to all the people I act with on the show, because they’re incredible. Do they make me the best? No. But they make me better. Better than I am, better than I thought I could be. Better than anything I can do. I appreciate everyone looking out and Don [Cheadle, his fellow nominee, who was motioning for him to finish] is right, I gotta wrap this puppy up. Never been my forte. A little windy, little windy, as my Aunt Loretta would say."
There is something about the combination of wearing a tie-dye hoodie to collect a prestigious honour and failing to collect your thoughts when the spotlight settles on you which, yes, feels a little like white male privilege, but is also hard to begrudge him for. Sudeikis, who stumbled through his speech like someone who had just bumped into their daughter's teacher at the supermarket while trying to hunt down cookie dough ice cream after taking three edibles (the first two didn't seem to be working), was just doing his best.
There are so many questions which this 1 minute 58 seconds has us asking. Does Otis Sudeikis enjoy having a parable by Leo Tolstoy read to him? His dad doesn't say it's his favourite story, just that he reads it to him, so it's possible he hasn't found a way to break it to his dad that he just wants to watch Spiderman. Who is Aunt Loretta who talks of the wind, and can we get a segment with her doing the weather and Sudeikis watching her while beaming and misty-eyed? Is it possible that his ex-wife, Olivia Wilde, is watching with her new boyfriend Harry Styles and feeling weirdly proud? Does he have enough edibles to last the night? Because nobody wants to be reentering reality while talking about the streaming revolution to someone at The Hollywood Reporter.
And most importantly: is there such thing as best actor anymore? Sudeikis REJECTS the premise of being the best actor! While collecting the award for it! So meta that it sounds like the next bedtime story for Otis Sudeikis is going to be Kafka's The Trial. We truly cannot wait for that speech.
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