{"id":142025,"date":"2025-01-04T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/golden-globes-pre-party-honors-viola-davis-ted-danson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:40:20","slug":"golden-globes-pre-party-honors-viola-davis-ted-danson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/golden-globes-pre-party-honors-viola-davis-ted-danson\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Globes Pre-Party Honors Viola Davis, Ted Danson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">If Friday night\u2019s \u201cGolden Gala: An Evening of Excellence\u201d is any indication, Sunday\u2019s Golden Globes 2025 ceremony is shaping up to be a loose and rousing affair. The pre-party for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/golden-globes?srsltid=AfmBOootuzhx6Ot9a184ejyx43mxYRWfD0wihWNaFZtwxtYGeIwSKub3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the big event<\/a>, which honored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2011\/08\/out-to-lunch-ted-danson-201108?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ted Danson<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2020\/07\/cover-story-viola-davis?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Viola Davis<\/strong><\/a> for their bodies of work, was marked by a bawdy on-stage anecdote from Danson\u2019s wife, <strong>Mary Steenburgen<\/strong>, an emotional and tearful exchange between <strong>Davis<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/meryl-streep?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong><\/a>, and affectionate heckling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2023\/04\/carol-burnett-90-birthday-nbc-comedy-special-career?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from <strong>Carol Burnett<\/strong><\/a>, giving the actual Golden Globes a lot to live up to.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night\u2019s shindig at The Beverly Hilton also counted <strong>Jane Fonda<\/strong>, <strong>Anthony Anderson<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Guttenberg<\/strong>, and <strong>Babyface<\/strong> among its guests, all watching as Streep presented a crying Davis with the 2024 Cecil B. DeMille Award. (A rep for the event notes that this handoff was an intentional callback to 2017, when it was Davis handing Streep that same award.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: (l-r) Actress Viola Davis, winner of Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for &#8216;Fences,&#8217; and honoree Meryl Streep, recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award, at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Christopher Polk\/NBC<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Davis accepted with a 16-minute-long speech about the challenges she\u2019s faced in the industry\u2014and how she had to make some tough decisions when choosing roles. \u201cLet me tell you something, not to be a contradiction, but when I started off in my career, I took a lot of jobs because of the money,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes, for a dark-skinned, Black woman with a wide nose and big lips, that\u2019s all there was out there. If I waited for a role that was well-crafted and written for me, well crafted, then I wouldn\u2019t be standing up here.\u201d (Variety has published Davis\u2019s speech <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/viola-davis-emotional-ted-danson-golden-globes-gala-1236265389\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/viola-davis-emotional-ted-danson-golden-globes-gala-1236265389\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/viola-davis-emotional-ted-danson-golden-globes-gala-1236265389\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in full<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"CneVideoEmbedFigure-kCfJjN jAaUmm cne-video-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">When Steenburgen took the stage to hand the 2024 Carol Burnett Award to her husband, she began by detailing the earliest days of their relationship, saying her assumption that he was a \u201cslick guy\u201d was upended the more she got to know him. \u201cHow wrong I was,\u201d she said. \u201cSlick guys don\u2019t say \u2018gosh-a-rooney\u2019 after making love,\u201d then, gently wincing, said \u201cI\u2019d like to apologize to my granddaughters now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In his acceptance speech, Danson said, \u201cI have to admit I\u2019ve always had a confusing relationship with awards. If I win, I feel a little embarrassed and lonely. If I don\u2019t win, I feel a little embarrassed and lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cBut not tonight. Not tonight. I am so thrilled to get this award, Carol. I cannot tell you how much it means to me. You have brought so much joy and happiness into households all over the world. You radiate kindness. I love you so much.\u201d From the seated crowd, Burnett\u2014still razor sharp at age 91\u2014hollered \u201cI love you\u201d up at the stage in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAs Sam Malone said, I truly am the luckiest son of a bitch I\u2019ve ever met,\u201d the 77-year-old <em>Cheers<\/em> star said in conclusion. \u201cAnd Carol, you know what\u2019s wonderful about this award is that every year, we are gathered together to celebrate laughter and joy. We will celebrate you, Carol, and we will celebrate all the funny men and women that came before us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Both Davis and Danson\u2019s honors will be acknowledged again tomorrow, when the 82nd annual Golden Globes are broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. The show kicks off at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, January 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/meryl-streep-viola-davis-golden-globes-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Friday night\u2019s \u201cGolden Gala: An Evening of Excellence\u201d is any indication, Sunday\u2019s Golden Globes 2025 ceremony is shaping up to be a loose and rousing affair. The pre-party for the big event, which honored Ted Danson and Viola Davis for their bodies of work, was marked by a bawdy on-stage anecdote from Danson\u2019s wife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3742,265,3846,6255,686],"class_list":{"0":"post-142025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-carol-burnett","9":"tag-golden-globes","10":"tag-meryl-streep","11":"tag-ted-danson","12":"tag-viola-davis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}