James Hong's SAG Awards speech proves we need all of his Hollywood stories
While picking up the honor for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture, James Hong shares some of the good and bad times in Hollywood history

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The cast of Everything Everywhere All At Once accepts the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. Photo: Kevin Winter
With one of the best speeches of award season thus far, Hollywood veteran James Hong got to take the stage in a room full of his peers and finally talk his shit.
Everything Everywhere All At Once had a stellar evening at the 2023 SAG Awards, with Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis all taking home statues for their respective roles in the sci-fi comedy, before earning SAG’s top prize for Cast in a Motion Picture.
Prior to handing the mic over to Hong, Yeoh introduced him. “There’s been one who has been supporting ensembles for longer than any of us have been alive,” she reflected. “He’s been acting since there were only 49 states, and he just turned 94. And it’s been 69 years in the making to get him to this stage.”