Megyn Kelly blasted Sally Field for "virtue signaling" during the actress’s recent acceptance speech at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
While accepting her lifetime achievement award on Sunday, Field apologized for being white, telling her Hollywood colleagues in attendance that her fight in life, “as hard as it was, was lightweight compared to some of yours. I thank you, and I applaud you.”
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“News flash, white girls in America don’t have any troubles that are worth remembering when you’re in front of a group that has a lot of people of color. It’s such bologna,” Kelly sarcastically blasted Field’s speech during her SiriusXM the Megyn Kelly Show. “It’s such pathetic, obvious virtue signaling.”
“It's ridiculous. Sally Field could get up there and say, ‘I came up with the industry where the casting couch was alive and well. That's why we produced people like Harvey Weinstein, and too many women from Marilyn Monroe forward have had to be subjected to that nonsense in order to get on the big screen. So I'm grateful for the opportunities that I created for myself,’” Kelly added. “No, she's basically got to be like, ‘I'm the little white girl from Pasadena, and I basically suffered nothing like you people did here in this room.’ How does she know? It's so diminishing to people of color who are in the room. Does she just assume they're all oppressed?”
Kelly’s guest comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla suggested entertainers are feeling the pressure to stay relevant in Hollywood to remain employed.
“Actors need employment, and as we’ve seen over the last few years, people will cancel anybody, and they’ll never come back,” Carolla said. “So, giving speeches about systemic racism makes you more employable.”
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Kelly replied, saying the virtue signaling during acceptance speeches needed to end.
“Maybe [Field] can help by stopping the continuation of dividing us all so much,” Kelly said. “Could you just shut up? Just f***ing say thank you, honestly.”