Months after Michelle Williams stunned the world with her rousing equal pay speech at the Emmys, The Greatest Showman star shut down the Golden Globes with another phenomenal speech.
Wearing a custom-made Louis Vuitton dress, the mother-of-one took to the stage to accept her award for Best Actress in a Mini Series for her role in Fosse/Verdon.
In an evening of rousing and political speeches, like Patricia Arquette who warned of the escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, and Russell Crowe, who (via Jennifer Aniston) spoke of the climate crisis and continent-wide fires in Australia, Williams took her minutes on the global stage to discuss an important issue close to her heart: abortion rights.
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Williams detailed in a speech (in full below) that she was firmly pro-choice, and urged women in particular to go out and vote in their own self-interest.
The A-list audience gave rapturous applause, with Tiffany Haddish vocally praising the star and Williams' best friend Busy Philips holding back proud tears.
The speech moved the internet, and the actress quickly began trending on Twitter, with thousands praising her eloquence and bravery.
Here is the speech in full:
When you put this in someone's hands, you're acknowledging the choices that they make as an actor. Moment by moment, scene by scene, day by day. But you're also acknowledging the choices they make as a person. The education they pursue, the training they sought, the hours they put in.
I'm grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I've made and also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because as women and as girls things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice.
I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over it- sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I have carved with my own hand.
I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose. To choose when to have my children and with whom. When I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing as all mothers know that the scales must and will tilt towards our children.
I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whoever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.
So women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest. It's what men have been doing for years.
It is what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them. Don't forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let's make it look more like us.
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Daisy Murray is the Digital Fashion Editor at ELLE UK, spotlighting emerging designers, sustainable shopping, and celebrity style. Since joining in 2016 as an editorial intern, Daisy has run the gamut of fashion journalism - interviewing Molly Goddard backstage at London Fashion Week, investigating the power of androgynous dressing and celebrating the joys of vintage shopping.
