Turns out winning a SAG Award doubles as an upper body workout.
Triumphant actors at the awards show on Sunday, February 23, couldn’t stop commenting on how heavy their trophies were during their acceptance speeches.
“Thank you SAG-AFTRA for this incredibly heavy award,” Kieran Culkin said upon accepting his trophy for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in A Real Pain. “I don’t think there’s any way anyone can hold this for 45 seconds.”
Shōgun actors Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada agreed with Culkin during their respective acceptance speeches for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor and Male Actor in a Drama Series.
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“It is very heavy!” Sawai, 32, exclaimed right before she exited the stage with her award.
When Sanada, 64, was first handed his award, he pretended he was going to drop it due to its weight.
Colin Farrell concurred.
“Jesus, Kieran was right!” he exclaimed while accepting his award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television movie for his performance in The Penguin.
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Well, just how heavy is that trophy?!
According to SAG, the statuette, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and tragedy called “The Actor,” weighs in at over 12 pounds. At 16 inches tall, the trophy is solid bronze and produced by the American Fine Arts Foundry, where 10 craftspeople use heat and cupric acid to give the statuettes their green patina each year.
In contrast, the Oscar statuette given at the Academy Awards weighs in at eight and a half pounds, an Emmy weighs just over six pounds and a Golden Globe weighs just under eight pounds.
The Guild reports that it takes three to four months for the artists to create all of the SAG statuettes each year and 1,233 individually numbered Actor statuettes have been awarded since the inaugural show in 1995.
The SAG Awards honor outstanding performances in both film and television, and this year, films like Emilia Pérez, Anora, Wicked and A Complete Unknown led the way, while Shōgun, The Penguin, The Diplomat, Nobody Wants This and Baby Reindeer led the TV categories.
