Aunt Gladys won an Actor Award for, as Orlando Bloom put it when introducing the Outstanding Supporting Actress category winner Amy Madigan, “terrorizing a suburb in a wig and a tracksuit.”
As she took the stage, Madigan performed the iconic Weapons run that the children demonstrate in the movie. This is her first Actor Award win and nomination.
“I’ve been doing this a long ass time, and I have never been nominated by the SAG committee, and by the guild. I’m a proud member, and I keep getting asked tonight, ‘Well, what is it about this night?’ And I said, ‘Because actors love other actors. They just love being with them. We want to be working with them. We want to look up at them and just go, man, you guys are so good,’” the Field of Dreams star said. “I’m a union person. I come from Chicago, and everybody in my family: all my friends, relatives — we’re all union people. And I don’t care what somebody says, they’re not going to bust us ever.”
After saying Gladys has surprised her, Madigan shouted out the Weapons ensemble — Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, Toby Huss and all the “little kids who ran around with us and stunt people.”
“I did terrorize them, but I let them rip me apart, so it was okay. It truly is the ensemble. And I just want to thank, of course, Zach Cregger, for this great honor,” she continued. “I wasn’t expecting this, but it does really mean a lot to me from my peers. We had a lot of casting changes because of COVID and strikes and this and that, and I want to give a shout out to Allison Jones, who assembled all of us.”
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She then eagerly picked up the Actor trophy, saying, “Let’s see, what does he have here?” before comparing the experience to “When you were little, and you had the Barbie and then you got Ken, and you whipped down his drawers and you went, ‘Ken has nothing!’”
“I never understood that,” she continued, laughing. “I really am digressing. I apologize. As you can tell, I’m nervous and I’m just overwhelmed and so happy. Thank you, everybody, so much.”
Viewers can look forward to more of Gladys in a Weapons prequel focused on the character.