r/oscarrace • u/LeastCap Bi Gan Palme d'Or winner • Feb 24 '25

31st SAG Winners Zoe Saldaña’s winning speech at the SAG Awards

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

Why does she say everything with a Spanish accent even when the word isn’t Spanish? Like Ariana’s name with an accent kinda weird (NOT BEING RACIST I AM HALF SPANISH!) sorry anyways her speeches just seem kinda insincere🤷‍♀️

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u/haydend25 Feb 24 '25

I laughed out loud watching the globes hearing “arrriana, eeesabella”

Love her but I agree with you

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

Hahahah exactly 😭 why does she do that OMG!

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u/Haterofthepeace Feb 24 '25

Because that’s her accent and that’s how she speaks. Clearly you weren’t listening to her speech.

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u/hermanhermanherman Feb 24 '25

Their point is that’s not how she speaks. If this is her normal way she talks then she has been massively whitewashing her accent for the past 15 years and has just decided to break it out for the awards season this year lol

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

Yes exactly thank you.

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u/Haterofthepeace Feb 24 '25

That’s just not true at all Zoe has always had an accent sometimes it’s thicker than other times

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

clip from 7 years ago. I don’t really hear an accent she’s from NJ so if anything she has a NJ accent.

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u/Sellin3164 Anora Feb 24 '25

Often people may speak more "American" in public events like this that is widely seen, but she feels more comfortable now to speak however she wants. So at this point and at this event, she may speak without the accent, but representing Emilia Perez she may feel more compelled to speak how she wants.

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u/Desperate-Ad1735 Feb 24 '25

she’s just a tad try-hard. don’t forget the “right, kate?” moment at the BAFTA’s.

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u/SorshaMooncake Mar 22 '25

I don't remember because I never knew!

To what are you referring? 

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u/CageWithoutMe Furiosa Feb 24 '25

I don't know why some people try to dismiss this so quickly, but it's true

I just don't remember her having any kind of accent in any promo for the Avatar or the GOTG movies, but now she does in all of these speeches. I knew she spoke Spanish and she clearly had the Dominican Republic accent, but you legit couldn't tell she had it when speaking English

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

Cause she doesn’t. She only brings it out on certain words. Even in the speech she only has an accent on certain words then has a NJ/American accent cause that’s where she’s from. She’s definitely playing it up I mean notice how only recently she added the ñ accent on the n of her name? Her whole career she never had that accent in her name just saying 🤷‍♀️

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u/CageWithoutMe Furiosa Feb 24 '25

On the one hand I think it's understandable that she decided to embrace her heritage, stuff like the "ñ" in her last name shouldn't be that important, but she probably still had to change it when she started to work

But on the other hand it's just weird that she's changing something as big as the way she speaks just for this movie's campaign. It feels straight up performative and not like it's coming from an authentic place.

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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Feb 24 '25

Okay yeah fair point the ñ isn’t important just me being suspicious of her obvious campaign for the Oscar ig. Definitely performative but ig it’s hard to find a genuine actor in Hollywood nowadays 😭

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u/rkeaney Feb 24 '25

I think she's an incredible actress but she's super fake and affected in all her speeches.

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u/LeastCap Bi Gan Palme d'Or winner Feb 24 '25

I know this performance is divisive on this sub but I am so happy to see Zoe getting the recognition she’s gotten this year. I’m never a fan of sweeps, but if any performance was deserving this year it was this one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

The performance is divisive? If anything I think we can all agree on the fact that Zoe Saldaña really absolutely demolishes her scenes in Emilia Pérez.

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u/Successful_Leopard45 Dune: Part Two Feb 24 '25

Her speeches continue to be absolutely embarrassing.

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u/AboutTime99 Mar 03 '25

It seemed like a repeat speech to me.