my shoes are so high I'm so short my
shoes are so high hi everybody thank you
so much for having me here at the all
right hi I'm Kate McKinnon and for some
reason I was asked to introduce Charlize
Theron at this glamour event which is
sort of like a bridge troll being asked
to introduce the queen but trolls love
snacks and green rooms so here I am what
what can be said about Charlize Theron a
person who's Helen of Troy asked ship
launching face is absolutely the least
remarkable thing about her a person a
person whose real life badassness makes
her character from Mad Max fury road
looked lazy and selfish a person so
grand that when you meet her it only
feels right to get on the floor
but who is so nice and normal that you
end up just kind of doing a little
curtsy I first became aware of Shirley's
around I saw monster which is in my
opinion the finest screen performance of
all time in the opinion of many others
clap it a performance filled with so
much compassion and so much humanity
that I found myself thinking my god
the pain of so many women in this world
is so overwhelming that I can't even
move and my god I want someone to make
out with me outside of a roller rink
sure Lisa's finest screen work came of
course in 2014 when we did an SNL sketch
together about two ladies working at a
cat shelter a sketch that would go on to
win a BAFTA no but seriously she swooped
in she turned a bunch of cat jokes into
a fully fleshed out drama dynamic and
for that I owe her summit but what I owe
her everything for truly is getting to
be a small part of her latest incredibly
important film bombshell where clap it
where she not only transforms into megyn
kelly but she embodies every nuance of a
horrifying and horrifyingly common
situation which is the Goliath that
women face when they choose to come
forward about sexual harassment but
these kinds of revelatory roles have
become kind of par for the course for
Charlize in whatever she does she always
stands for bravery risk and making tough
choices she does it as an actor as a
producer an activist a philanthropist
and a mom and that's what makes her a
glamour Woman of the Year here she is
the strong the brilliant the resplendent
Charlize Theron
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what a night
I'm a mess there is nothing glamorous
about my face anymore you all me
up in the most beautiful way oh my god
um Thank You Katie for doing this for
asking me to be your cat lady
you see bombshell she is unbelievable in
it she's so incredible in it it's a
privilege to work with somebody as
incredibly talented as you and funny
that's until the day you do an
impression of me and a celebrity game
show sketch then you're dead to me I
also want to thank Sam and everybody
from glamour it is an incredible honor
to be named women of the Year when this
is the kind of company I get to keep Eva
Yara Megan Tori
Margaret Greta Erika Andrea Mira a
thousand times I say yes every time I'm
sure you're all feeling this powerful
female alchemy in the room tonight and
if you don't feel change or
enlightenment by what you've heard on
the stage here tonight then then maybe
you got your invite through some
clerical error or you're dead inside
it's clear to me that my job as a
storyteller whether I'm acting or
producing or talking to my kids at night
before they go to bed is to create as
much empathy as I can especially right
now and I'm not I'm talking about more
than just feeling that feeling that you
get when you look at Oprah's Instagram
feed
although believe me it does a pretty
good job filling the void these days you
guys seen her hold vegetables that she
grows in her garden she cradled it's
like xanax but I'm off topic here the
point is we need to help the
hard-hearted to empathize with others
like sexual assault survivors people
living with AIDS our trans community
children who are different or who have
special needs the women in this room
tonight are putting themselves on the
front line of the empathy battle be it's
her story telling creating opportunities
for those who need it most
or just unabashedly being yourself and
telling other women we don't have to
apologize for who we are or what we are
and I'm looking at you Megan this is all
you yes every single one of you inspires
the hell out of me but the work that
you're doing I mean when I was 16 I was
begging my mom to go on a date and Greta
is trying to convince the world not to
let our earth go up in flames and Yara's
helping people vote I mean I'm
useless when women of Rice's you're
working tiredly tirelessly at the job
that shouldn't even exist we shouldn't
have to be doing this and yet there you
are doing it providing support basic
human rights to a group of people that
deserve just as much freedom and
security as all of us by telling
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by telling our diverse fascinating
complicated stories we turn on a
universal empathy filter one that
removes all the impurities or fighting
racism sexism homophobia xenophobia and
anything else you might see and pretty
much any White House briefing where
unfortunately every time our president
opens his mouth so tell your story be
proud of it
don't worry about everybody liking you
it's impossible wash your face even when
you're really tired at night take risks
radiate empathy like you've got a tap of
it and fight for change because it's
people especially girls who have the
power to create change and speaking of
girls that's why I do all of it for my
girls Jackson and Augie there's a reason
I'll never stop fighting my mom thank
you for being an example an example that
me and my girls can follow
the kids have gone right my mom will be
my woman of the year until the end of
time we are all in this together
all of us there is nothing we cannot do
and I'm here to back you guys
that's it thank you
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