Joaquin Phoenix: 'I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with. I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second chance'
” at Sunday’s Academy Awards with a lengthy and impassioned speech that touched on racism, animal rights and his own ability to grow and change.
The actor, who has influenced several awards season events to adopt vegan or mostly vegan menus, continued, “We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby. Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.
After a long, emotional pause, Phoenix concluded by evoking his late brother, the actor River Phoenix.
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