Regina King Wins First Golden Globe, Vows To Include 50 percent Women In Future Projects
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oi-Chaitra Krishnamurthy
By Puja
As
Regina
King
won
her
first
Golden
Globe
Award
for
Best
Supporting
Film
Actress
for
her
role
in
Barry
Jenkins'
"If
Beale
Street
Could
Talk",
she
pledged
to
include
50
per
cent
women
in
all
her
future
projects.
This
was
King's
third
Golden
Globe
nomination.
She
was
nominated
for
the
TV
series
"American
Crime" in
2016,
and
was
nominated
this
year
for
the
series
"Seven
Seconds".
Based
on
the
novel
by
literary
icon
James
Baldwin,
the
film
follows
the
romance
of
two
young
African-Americans,
Tish
(Kiki
Layne)
and
Fonny
(Stephan
James),
who
strengthen
their
bond
through
an
unexpected
pregnancy
and
are
nearly
torn
asunder
by
a
wrongful
imprisonment.
King
plays
Sharon
Rivers,
mother
to
Tish,
who
is
a
fierce
advocate
for
her
daughter
and
fights
valiantly
to
prove
Fonny's
innocence.
In
her
acceptance
speech,
the
actor
said
she
will
make
sure
to
give
opportunities
to
women
on
her
set
and
urged
other
people
in
power
to
do
the
same.
"In
the
next
two
years,
everything
that
I
produce,
I
am
making
a
vow,
and
it's
going
to
be
tough,
to
make
sure
that
everything
that
I
produce,
that
it's
50
per
cent
women,
and
I
just
challenge
anyone
out
there
who
is
in
a
position
of
power
I
challenge
you
to
challenge
yourselves
anddo
the
same,"
she
said.
King
faced
off
against
Amy
Adams
("Vice"),
Claire
Foy
("First
Man"),
Emma
Stone
("The
Favourite"),
Rachel
Weisz
("The
Favourite")
to
take
home
the
Best
Performance
by
an
Actress
in
a
Supporting
Role
in
Any
Motion
Picture
trophy.
PTI