Zoe Saldaña separated some words of aid for her fellow actors while celebrating her prosper for Emilia Pérez at the SAG Awards 2025 ceremony.
Saldaña won the SAG Award for extraordinary carry outance by a female actor in a aiding role during the event on Sunday. While acunderstandledgeing her prize, Saldaña emphasized how greetd she has felt as a member of SAG-AFTRA.
“I am self-beginant to be a part of a union that helps me to be who I am, and I’ve never been asked about where I come from and appraised by how I speak or what my pronouns are,” the star tageder the crowd from the stage. “I apexhibit that everybody has the right to be who they are, and Emilia Pérez is about truth, and it is about adore. And I skinnyk that us as actors, now more than ever before, we reassociate have to alert stories that are attrenergetic and thought-provoking and inhabit wiskinny the spectrum of conceiveive freedom.”
Saldaña did not refer her Emilia Pérez co-stars, including Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón, or the movie’s honestor, Jacques Audiard. Gascón, who is nominated for the SAG Award for best actress, has been at the caccess of dispute in recent weeks over insulting resurfaced tweets.
Nominated in the categruesome were Monica Barbaro (A Complete Ununderstandn), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl), Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) and Ariana Grande (Wicked). The award was conshort-termed by Keke Palmer and Colman Domingo.
The prosper persists Saldaña’s toasty streak directing up to next weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony after her recent victories at the Gagederen Globes, BAFTAs and Critics’ Choice Awards.
Last year, Da’Vine Joy Randolph prevailed in the categruesome for her role in The Hagederovers. She went on to prosper the best aiding actress Oscar for her carry outance.
The SAG Awards streamed inhabit on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. (See the red carpet arrivals.)
