Hi.

Good evening.

Thank you, Sharon, you are... You're so iconic.

And... I was little, growing up in China and we didn't have a lot of movies.

And we had your movies.

And my parents are so excited about this.

More than anything I've ever done is this video that I'm going to send them tonight.

So... And you're also so brave and... - Thank you.

So real.

And I want to thank the AARP.

We feel so incredibly humbled to be in this room.

Thank you for this honor and also for your wisdom and for the deeply important work that you do.

I'd like to thank Focus Features for your passion and your patience and unconditional support and are deeply caring producers.

My big hearted and incredibly talented cast Jessie, Paul and and the whole village of “Hamnet.” We did this together.

Someone once said, what is grief but love persevering.

Making “Hamnet” reminded us that grief is inevitable part of life.

And yet the more we can allow ourselves to, to feel the depths of our grief, the greater our capacity to love and to have compassion grows.

It's a really beautiful paradox, but incredibly, incredibly hard.

As many of you know.

So when it's really difficult to feel our grief, we... That's when we reach out for poetry.

And that's with when we reach out for art.

And that's when we reach out for storytelling and for each other, for community.

So thank you for gathering tonight and for feeling so bravely and for loving so deeply.

Goodnight.

Thank you.