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Morgan Freeman Calls Out SAG Awards Statuette for Being Gender-Specific

Morgan Freeman Calls Out SAG Awards Statuette for Being Gender-Specific
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"From the back it works. But from the front it's gender-specific."

On Sunday night, veteran actor Morgan Freeman was honored at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

After a standing ovation, Freeman was introduced by fellow Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Rita Moreno, who Freeman just happened to present the award to five years ago. The 86-year-old Moreno worked with Freeman 50 years ago on the acclaimed children's tv show The Electric Company, and the two have remain close ever since. She even told a story about Freeman playing Dracula on the show that had the audience chuckling.


After a montage of Freeman's work, it was time for the actor to head to the stage and accept his award. Moreno playfully ribbed Morgan about his baseball hat covering his face, and he teased back, "You got no idea how long I had to put up with that."

50 years, perhaps?

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And after thanking SAG/AFTRA for bestowing the honor on him, Freeman paused for a moment before saying, "I wasn't going to do this; I'm going to tell you what's wrong with this statue."

"It works from the back, but from the front, it's gender specific," he noted, which was met with laughter from the audience. "Maybe I started something," he quipped to applause.

Now, Freeman wasn't talking about the Lifetime Achievement Award, which depicts the traditional comedy/tragedy masks, but rather the award given to other recipients, which is simply called "The Actor."

You can see that the statuette is clearly male:

Many were happy that Morgan called out the statue for being sexist:

Others seemed to think that notion of a statue being sexist was a bit extreme:

But perhaps the most important revelation is that Morgan wasn't actually the first person to point out the gender specificity of the statue. And in fact, it was a woman: Dame Helen Mirren.

The Oscar winner noted in her win last year for the TV movie Phil Spector that the statue was male, but joked about it in a lighthearted way, saying, "I love this little guy. He's so sexy, isn't he? You know, sort of naked, but not quite. And...quite exciting."


We'll have to wait and see how the SAG Awards responds to Freeman's observation. We may be seeing a decidedly less-masculine statue at next year's awards.

To see the rest of Freeman's introduction and speech, check out the video below:

H/T: Indy100, Twitter

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