Naomie Harris on Tom's GG Speech

But will she write a speech, just in case?
She laughs. Harris recently witnessed another British actor, Tom Hiddleston, tie himself in earnest knots with his Golden Globes acceptance speech, in which he told a garbled story about his humanitarian work in South Sudan. A shot of Harris’s seemingly unimpressed face became an internet meme. Hiddleston later apologized.
“I really sympathize with Tom,” she says, “because I think it’s so easy, under the pressure of those moments … to find yourself going down the path of telling a story and as you’re telling it, think, This is not what I want to say, it’s not how I mean it to go, but you’re kind of trapped on that train and you can’t stop … And then ridiculing a person for that … I just think it’s so mean!”
After a bit more prodding, Harris concedes that she will be writing a speech. Like all the best Girl Scouts, she wants to be prepared for every eventuality.

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It's past tense by now, but I ran across this and want to share. It does make me think how the internet takes everything to extreme proportions. Harris and Slater became the meme faces to Tom's speech 😅. Christian Slater later retweeted Riz Ahmed's support for Tom's work with Unicef only like a day or two after the ceremony. In a way, I'd hate to be a meme, a face, attached to trending hate-on. This type of social media fodder in its own way creates a very false narrative. I can totally see why some people have different reactions as they watched though. But it's not unlike gossip. Take a a bunch of pictures of a celeb or celebs, try to find the right expression or people nearby and hooked it with a clickbait headliner. Then, you create a story out of nothing.

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience." - TH