And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.” It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled New York Times reporter – someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back,” Streep said. Rather, Streep tore strips off Trump for mocking disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski. Streep said there was one performance last year that “stunned” her, but it wasn’t from an actor. “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” Streep said. Demille Award winner Meryl Streep was on hand to distract from Vergara’s awkward moment with her powerful, rousing speech criticising United States President-elect Donald Trump and highlighting the importance of “outsiders” in the media. Jonathan Bogart JanuMeryl Streep silences the room “My impatience with the ‘Tee hee, Sofia Vergara is not from here’ jokes has now snapped,” another said.Įvery comedy writer who pitches a joke about Sofia Vergara's accent should try being a wildly successful entertainer in a second language. “I wish we could live in a world where Sofia Vergara doesn’t have to constantly mock herself in order to exist,” one Twitter user wrote. Interestingly, they were more annoyed by the joke’s racial undertones than its crude subject matter, with many complaining Vergara was the “punchline” of a stale theme of racism in Hollywood. While Vergara got some nervous giggles from the crowd, viewers at home were less than impressed with the stunt. A photo posted by Sofia Vergara on at 6:24pm PST
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