Morgan Freeman hopes SAG lifetime achievement award doesn't mean "get off the stage, you're done"

Record ID: 982398

  • Title: Morgan Freeman hopes SAG lifetime achievement award doesn't mean "get off the stage, you're done"
  • Date: 22nd January 2018
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 21, 2018) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) ACTOR MORGAN FREEMAN WALKING TO MICROPHONE BACKSTAGE AT SAG AWARDS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR MORGAN FREEMAN SAYING: "You have to give that some thought because the title is life achievement, the inference might be get off the stage, you're done. It might. My hope is that that's not the case, th
  • Embargoed: 5th February 2018 04:15
  • Keywords: SAG Screen Actors Guild awards film television
  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA0017Z6YV65
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Morgan Freeman, the versatile actor known for playing gods, presidents and pimps, was honored with the 2017 lifetime achievement award by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) at its annual ceremony on Sunday (January 21).
    Backstage after the show, Freeman joked that he hoped the award didn't mean "get off the stage, you're done."
    Britain's Gary Oldman won the best actor award for playing wartime leader Winston Churchill in Focus Features' "Darkest Hour."
    The SAG awards are indicators of likely Oscar success in March because actors form the largest group of voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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