‘Do You Need to Be an Actor?’

Kristen Bell requested the viewers that very query as she opened the thirty first Annual Display screen Actors Guild Awards with a catchy tune impressed by the hit music from her 2013 Disney movie, Frozen.

Bell referenced iconic moments from the careers of the evening’s nominees, as clips from a few of their earlier roles in Hollywood flashed throughout the display screen.

“Do you need to be an actor? Let’s get your foot contained in the door. Are you able to scream loads on Halloween or be a magnificence queen or hug a purple dinosaur?” Bell sang, as pictures of Jamie Lee Curtis, Selena Gomez and extra performed on within the background.

The tongue-in-cheek music — which poked enjoyable at a number of the methods the nominated stars acquired their begin — confirmed how far these actors have come, an the storied careers they’ve had since.

A few of these tasks included movies like Crossroads for Zoe Saldana, Cannot Hardy Wait for Jason Segel, a Coppertone industrial for Jodie Foster and Kieran Culkin’s function in Residence Alone.

Elsewhere throughout Bell’s opening monologue, she opened up about everybody within the room desirous to be within the leisure business — earlier than paying tribute to the Los Angeles Firefighters in attendance as she made point out of the devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles final month.

“I simply need to say everybody on this room, and I do imply everybody, together with the digicam operators on the aspect, over right here and over right here, the writers backstage, the director within the sales space, and all the actors of their seats, everybody began out as a child in someplace comma Earth, going to mattress and waking up each morning considering it is gonna be me,” Bell started.

“So sure, Justin Timberlake owes us all a chunk of that music. Search for my electronic mail petition. However actually, there are a variety of birthday candles and pennies in fountains throughout the globe that I will maintain this shared dream, and that’s to be a working artist,” she continued earlier than referencing the city the place all of it occurs.

“And that dream has a backdrop, and it is referred to as Los Angeles, and it, too, is a really stunning factor,” Bell stated. The town and the individuals in it has been put by means of the ringer, and although this room is filled with sparkles and glamor, and likewise what the youngsters are calling Riz, essentially the most engaging tables, I have to level out, are proper over there,” she added whereas pointing to a desk with members of the LAFD.

The 2025 SAG Awards is streaming stay on Netflix for the second yr in a row — for the entire record of winners, click on right here.