Watch: Spotlight wins, Keaton calls out ‘powerful who take advantage of powerless’ in speech
The film won the biggest award of the evening.
“This is for the powerless,’’ said Spotlight actor Michael Keaton, while accepting an award alongside his castmates for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at Saturday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Mark Ruffalo spoke as well, calling the sexual abuse of children by the Boston archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church “one of the most horrific things our culture has allowed to happen.’’
Ruffalo, Keaton, Rachel McAdams, and the rest of the cast of Spotlight took home the evening’s biggest award. Accepting it, Ruffalo thanked Spotlight director Tom McCarthy and screenwriter Josh Singer for taking “every opportunity to tell the truth.’’
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“They didn’t take any cheap way — it was always the truth,’’ Ruffalo said. “It honored these people — these victims who are dead, and the survivors who are still alive, of one of the most horrific things that our culture has allowed to happen.’’
Ruffalo then handed the speaking duties over to Keaton, who said that for him, the movie carried a broad banner.
“This is not only for the survivors of this horrific situation,’’ Keaton said. “But for me personally, and I’m only speak for me, this is really for the disenfranchised everywhere. This is for every Flint, Michigan in the world. This is for the powerless. This is for the powerful who take advantage of the powerless.’’
Check out the full speech below.
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