.@twhiddleston wins Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made For Television! Congrats! #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/2hDCKNXVNNJanuary 9, 2017
Tom Hiddleston took home a Golden Globe Sunday night for his role in The Night Manager. But his acceptance speech, well-intentioned as it was, received more than a few eye rolls in response.
Hiddleston took time during his speech to talk about his charity work in South Sudan. "I recently went to South Sudan, which is the youngest country in the world, in East Africa," he said. "With the United Nations Children's Fund. I do a little bit of work with them to spread the word as fast as I can. It's a terrible situation for children there. The Night Manager is about arms dealing, and there are far too many arms coming into South Sudan." He went on to mention one time that he was having a meal, and workers with Doctors Without Borders came up to explain that they "binge-watched" The Night Manager.
Not all viewers were drawn in by his story, though. Many criticized him for sounding as though he was bragging rather than spreading awareness of a good cause.
Sometimes the discomfort was apparent in the audience:
Christian Slater during Tom Hiddleston's speech bragging about Doctors Without Borders binge-watching his show is all of us#GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/XxYNBS8OMwJanuary 9, 2017
#GoldenGlobes director cutting to the #StrangerThings kids during Tom Hiddleston's speech about Sudan was A CHOICE pic.twitter.com/LWPOmXkbbMJanuary 9, 2017
And that sentiment was echoed on Twitter, with people feeling more or less uncomfortable with it all.
"A quick story: I was in South Sudan and everyone said the ONLY thing they care about is my performance in Netflix's The Crown"January 9, 2017
Thank you to Tom Hiddleston and all actors who dare to perform in projects that are shown in some of the most dangerous parts of he world.January 9, 2017
I know for a fact the children of South Sudan prefer DIFFICULT PEOPLEJanuary 9, 2017
This is Tom Hiddleston's "did I ever tell you about the time I went backpacking in Europe?" story to get laid #GoldenGlobesJanuary 9, 2017
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