Natasha Lyonne Speech at Macaulay Culkin Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony

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00:00 (bells jingling)

00:03 Our next speaker is an actress known for her works

00:06 in "Poker Face," "Russian Doll," "Orange is the New Black."

00:11 She starred in "Party Monster" with her honoree.

00:14 Please help me welcome to the stage, Natasha Lyonne.

00:19 (audience applauding)

00:22 (audience applauding)

00:25 - Okay.

00:36 Mac, I'm so proud of you and I'm honored

00:41 to share in this milestone moment

00:43 and to be able to celebrate you.

00:44 (clears throat)

00:50 Well, I remember our first meeting

00:52 at a bar in the Lower East Side.

00:54 It was down some stairs in the back,

00:55 some random, no-name, who-cares spot.

00:58 We were about to start filming a true crime film

01:00 about the Michael Allig murders

01:02 in the '90s rave scene of underground New York.

01:05 Well, you played Michael Allig.

01:07 I was playing Brooke, someone in your inner circle.

01:10 We kinda just clocked each other

01:12 and I remember thinking, "That's my friend."

01:14 And we were from that point on.

01:17 I guess we were about 19 or 20 or something then.

01:20 I don't wanna be weird or emo about it,

01:22 but the truth is that there's a very rare,

01:25 unspoken language that happens

01:26 between child actors who make it out alive.

01:29 Now, granted, you were Shirley Temple

01:32 and I was Paul Giamatti,

01:34 but the refrain remains the same.

01:38 Yes, yes, we did.

01:40 We had a gift and that was fun.

01:42 But is it really sane to be a fully activated businessman

01:47 enmeshed in an adult world before the age of six years old?

01:51 Probably not.

01:53 And so we find each other and we instinctively register

01:58 what a miracle that survival is.

02:00 The true beauty, though, is seeing the adult you've become,

02:04 the loving patriarch you are to your beautiful siblings,

02:08 and now the deep and loving father and husband that you are.

02:12 Later in life, you so generously and gamely played a role

02:15 in my first outing as a writer-director,

02:18 a kind of Fellini-esque endeavor

02:20 wherein I asked you vaguely to play a cipher,

02:24 and to which you and I immediately replied, "Say no more."

02:28 Well, you showed up, you crushed,

02:30 and I got to watch firsthand, giddy at the monitor,

02:33 your automatic, undeniable, and impossibly magnetic power,

02:37 a screen legend navigating surrealist twists,

02:40 no problem, as always.

02:43 And later, meaning now, I gotta say,

02:46 nothing makes me happier than to see you existing

02:49 so concretely on your own terms,

02:51 and with no loss of your underlying eccentricity

02:55 or absurdist outlook or big picture, big heart perspective

02:59 that sustains us as a community and as a family of artists.

03:03 Sometimes we would play running charades

03:07 with your whole family and your pals

03:09 in the big Soho loft, and I think to myself,

03:14 you know, maybe we won.

03:17 Maybe Mac really cracked it.

03:20 And it makes me happy, real happy, you know, for all of us.

03:25 So thank you for being the one and only.

03:28 I love you, and you're a king.

03:30 Congratulations.

03:31 (audience cheers and applauds)

03:33 - Thank you so much for having me.

03:35 - Thank you.

03:36 (audience applauds)

03:39 (audience applauds)

03:42 (whooshing)

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