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Netflix Strives For A Kooky SAG Awards, While Hollywood Superstars Fran Drescher and Barbra Streisand Brought the Award Show Gold
The first SAG Awards on Netflix featured Tan France's commentary
Presenter and quasi-host Idris Elba indicated to the attended nominees that, in their speeches, they were free to let expletives fly, but that none of them should say anything “you wouldn’t say in front of Oprah.” (Shortly after that, Meryl Streep walked directly into the mic stand — seeming to suggest a kooky and wild awards show that didn’t quite arrive.) After the SAG Awards had fully moved to streaming — after a liminal year, in 2023, in which the ceremony had aired on Netflix’s YouTube channel, preceded by a long tenure on the Turner cable networks — it felt like a sort of safe space for speaking frankly. Some additions to the SAG platter seemed like self-inflicted wounds — a video piece in which “Abbott Elementary” performer Lisa Ann Walter revealed what she’d recorded her conversations with fellow nominees via a hidden mic felt dull (you mean to tell me Robert Downey Jr. is cordial?)
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