Da'Vine Joy Randolph only had to win the Oscar to culminate an awards season that has given her, among others, the Golden Globe, the Critics Choice, the BAFTA and the one awarded by the Screen Actors Guild. And yes, of course, this morning she was able to crown herself with the golden statuette that her bets predicted so much and that she still couldn't quite believe.
"How good God is. I never thought that this would be my career," acknowledged the actress, who was the first winner of the night and who has not hidden her emotion and tears at such recognition. The Academy wanted to recognize her role in Those Who Remain, the Christmas comedy-drama directed by Alexander Payne. In the film, the actress plays a cook who tries to recover from the death of her son in Vietnam.
Joy Randolph believed that her life was going to be the song, but she remembered her mother's stage, "who told me to try out in the theater department." She listened to him, and things turned out well, because she won her first Oscar in her first nomination. Something that not everyone is lucky enough to say.
"I was the only black girl in my acting class," and there were days when "I didn't quite see myself." But there were many who did see her and, therefore, she wanted to dedicate a few words to "all the women who have helped me" and who have allowed her to pursue this dream.
"For so long I have wanted to be different and now I realize that what I had to be was myself," concluded the actress, who asked God for one last favor: "may this be repeated more times."
