Three-time Academy Award winner Sally Field gave a virtue signaling speech while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this weekend, and Megyn Kelly thinks it was “pathetic.”
The Sirius XM host tore into the “Steel Magnolias” star during Monday’s episode of her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” because Field apologizing for being a privileged “little white girl” during her time on stage.
“She’s very sorry about one thing and that appears to be the fact that she’s white,” Kelly said before playing a clip of Field’s address.
“I was a little white girl with a pug nose born in Pasadena, California,” The “80 For Brady” actress said on stage.
“And when I look around this room tonight, I know my fight, as hard as it was, was lightweight compared to some of yours. I thank you. And I applaud you,” Field concluded.
Kelly questioned why admitted guilt for being “raised a little white girl and that she wasn’t of a different race with a bigger struggle.”
The conservative commentator mockingly scoffed that “white girls in America don’t have any troubles that are worth remembering when you’re in front of a group that has a lot of people of color.”
She told guests Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam Corolla that the “Forrest Gump” star’s spiel was “such pathetic, obvious virtue signaling.”
“She could’ve said something like that true to her personality,” Kelly complained.
“No, she’s basically got to be like ‘I’m the little white girl from Pasadena and I basically suffered nothing like you people did here in this room.’ How does she know?”
“It’s so diminishing to people of color who are in the room,” the former Fox News’ host continued.
“She just assumes that they are all oppressed? Why should she assume that they’ve all had it so bad?”
Carolla claimed that Field’s speech was a symptom of cancel culture. “Giving speeches about systemic racism makes you more employable,” he remarked.
Kelly has a suggestion for next time Field’s accepts an acting award. “Could you just shut up? Just f–king say thank you, honestly.”
At the same awards show, “Halloween” star Jamie Lee Curtis admitted to being a “nepo baby,” but wasn’t apologetic in the slightest about it.
Curtis, who is the daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and “Psycho” scream queen Janet Leigh, won Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
“My parents were actors and I married an actor. I love actors. I love acting. I love the job we get to do,” she began.
“I love being part of a crew. I love being part of a cast. I love what we do with each other, it’s such a beautiful job.”
Curtis noted that many actors in the industry don’t get the accolades or amount of roles she has landed during her decades long career.
“And I know you look at me and think, well, nepo baby, that’s why she’s there,” she added.
“And I totally get it. But the truth of the matter is I’m 64 years old and this is just amazing.”
Curtis calling herself a “nepo baby” comes on the heels of a New York Magazine piece, which highlighted the high level of success that celebrity spawn reach in Hollywood, likely due to the parent’s prestige.
While the “True Lies” actress was not called out in the article, she complained that her parent’s fame has mentioned throughout her entire career.
“I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,” she captioned a photo of her family on Instagram.
“I’ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on ‘Quincy’ as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later,” Curtis continued in a lengthy diatribe.
“There’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars.”
Curtis noted that she has navigated the “advantages” her associated fame brought her, and does not pretend that they don’t exist.
However, she doesn’t understand how society can “make assumptions and snide remarks” about the successful relatives of famous people, and believe that that they could have made it in the entertainment industry with “no talent whatsoever.
“The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt,” Curtis concluded.
Elsewhere in the program, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, wants to use Hollywood money and move productions to influence state politicians.
“SAG-AFTRA and the NFLPA together forged Actors & Athletes for Democracy. We are the greatest influencers on the planet and must promote freedom for all,” Drescher said during the awards show.
“Our industry brings billions of production dollars to states across the nation, but if they want our business, let’s wield our financial influence to make governors act in the best interest of freedom, diversity, inclusion, and democracy,” she continued.
“As my character Bobbi Flekman said in ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ ‘Money talks & bulls–t walks,'” the former star of “The Nanny” concluded.
Surprisingly, during the same speech, Drescher called for the end of Hollywood’s “bulls–t” vaccine mandate.
The entertainment industry, which is heavily ruled by unions, has rigid pandemic protocols in place to ensure production’s were able to film during the height of COVID-19.
Tinseltown’s mandates were set to expire at the end of last year, but were extended until April 1.
“As the nation declares an end to the COVID emergency this May, I hope we will see everyone return to work in equal opportunity,” Dresher willed.