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Press Room Media Crush, Backstage Oscar(R) 2010 Edited by Quendrith Johnson ("Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" - Best Supporting Actress)
Q: You've got all the time in the world now. Everything you've wanted and what you said on stage was wonderful. There was no red light or time pressure, and you could say anything you wanted to say. What do you want to say, holding that [statutte] in your hand? MO'NIQUE: Everything I wanted to say and everything I needed to say, I said it. Q: Mo'Nique, you've often said you are not an actress, you're a standup comedienne. That's your baby, and you won't call yourself an actress. MO'NIQUE: I am a standup comedienne who won an Oscar. Q: I want you to just share the story with the audience and the world that you shared with us on the red carpet about Hattie McDaniel. I don't think people out there really got it? Please explain the blue dress. MO'NIQUE: The reason why I have on this royal blue dress is because it's the color that Hattie McDaniel wore in 1940 when she accepted her Oscar. The reason why I have this gardenia in my hair, it is the flower that Hattie McDaniel wore when she accepted her Oscar. So, for you, Ms. Hattie McDaniel, I feel you all over me, and it's about time that the world feels you all over them. Q: Now, you are a very empowering woman. So I want to ask you, what do you think would happen to Hollywood actresses if they had more natural figures and didn't shave their legs? MO'NIQUE: They'd win Oscars. Q: As awful as Mary Jones was, did you see any of yourself in her? MO'NIQUE: Yes, in that last scene. And I will ask you, have you ever had a dark moment when you were unlovable? Q: Yes. MO'NIQUE: Didn't you want somebody to love you through it? Q: Yes. MO'NIQUE: That was that same for me. For as cruel as Mary Jones was, for the monster that she was, everybody and I don't care who you are and what crime you've committed, everybody deserves to be loved, even when they are unlovable. Q: Did you and Sidney have a moment right when they announced your name? Did anything go on between the two of you? Did you say anything to each other? MO'NIQUE: When they announced my name, Sidney and I went back to Ramblestown High School on the balcony, at 14 years old, in the 10th grade. And I said, "One day we are going to be stars." And he said, "You first." That is the moment we went to. Q: What about that comment onstage about politics and the Academy? MO'NIQUE: Through this journey and process and I'm sure some of you are sitting in this room right now some journalist wrote, some reporters wrote, "Someone needs to teach Mo'Nique a lesson. Someone needs to tell her how this game is played." And I am very proud to be part of an Academy that says, "We will not play that game. We will judge her on her performance and not how many dinners she attended and how many pictures she took. It's on the screen." So I am proud to hold this Oscar in my hand because this Academy said, "We won't play the game that the media wants to so readily put out there." Thank you... God bless all of you. Screenmancer's News, Interviews, Reviews SCREENMANCER thanks the ACADEMY and OSCAR(R) |
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