Viola Davis Thinks Timothée Chalamet’s SAG Awards Speech Wasn’t About ‘Ego’; Says She ‘Completely Understood’
Timothée Chalamet delivered a powerful speech after accepting his Best Actor SAG Award for his performance in A Complete Unknown. The young actor took to the stage, shared his wish to be one of “the greats,” and name-dropped some legendary actors. Viola Davis was one of the names he mentioned, along with Michael Jordan and Daniel Day-Lewis. When Access Hollywood caught up with Davis, they asked her thoughts on the Dune actor giving her a shout-out. The EGOT winner revealed that her teenage daughter, Genesis Tennon, whom she adopted in 2011, showed her the clip of Chalamet’s speech. “It was a speech about excellence. It wasn’t about celebrity, it wasn’t about ego. I completely understood it, and it was beautiful,” Davis told the outlet. At the 2025 SAG Awards, the young actor bagged the award for performance by a male actor in a leading role. Chalamet went to the stage to receive his first award for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. He told the cheering audience that he can’t “downplay” the significance of …









