Samuel L. Jackson, Liv Ullman Get Oscars During a Governors Awards With No Campaigning
thewrap.commother. (Jackson explained that it was his “go-to Elmer Fudd stop-stuttering words” as a child.)And while Jackson help up his Oscar statuette and said, “I’ll tell you, this is going to be cherished,” he also made teasing reference to the stereotypical roles he had to take when he remarked, “It’s been a real pleasure making indelible impressions on audiences as Gang Member No.
2, Bum, Hold-Up Man and the unforgettable Black Guy, just to name a few.”John Lithgow summed up Liv Ullman’s approach to both acting and directing with the phrase “Don’t turn away,” and told a story of how brilliant she had been when the two of them starred in Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” on Broadway years ago.
Ullman followed with one of the most priceless anecdotes of the night, when she described spotting legendary Swedish actress Greta Garbo on the streets of New York at a time when Ullman herself had become Hollywood’s hot new Scandinavian actress.The reclusive Garbo, she said, panicked when she saw Ullman approaching, and began to run away. “I can run fast,” Ullman said, “but she runs faster.
Garbo disappeared into Central Park, Ullman never saw her again and, she added, “I realized I was a little full of myself.”Glover was the final honoree, receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for a career and life full of activism and recalling a time when he and Samuel Jackson both appeared in a 1980 play reading in San Francisco that was directed by Morgan Freeman.
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