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The Crowd Goes Wild for Barbra Streisand’s SAG Lifetime Achievement Speech


Anne Hathaway, specifically.

Per usual, the awards show played a retrospective montage of Streisand’s decades-long career, featuring classics like Funny Girl and Yentl, but thankfully didn’t forget about the equally important Meet the Fockers or The Guilt Trip. “Sometimes I don’t trust the teleprompter,” she began her speech, holding up her backup note cards, before saying that she much prefers awards like this, where she knows in advance that she’s going to win. “I remember dreaming of being an actress as a teenager, sitting in my bed in Brooklyn with a pint of coffee ice cream,” she said, recalling a trip to the Astor Theatre where she caught a screening of Guys and Dolls.

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