Michelle Williams won more than an Emmy tonight as she accepted her award for Best Actress in a Limited Series for FX's Fosse/Verdon. The actress accepted the award with a speech that floored everyone. Stating how heer studio pays male and female counterparts equally, Williams brought an interesting point in place about how the women need to be seen as people and not by their gender. Emmys 2019 Complete Winner List LIVE Updates: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Wins Outstanding Variety Talk Series

“I see this as an acknowledgement of what is possible when a woman is trusted to discern her own needs, feels safe enough to voice them, and respected enough to be heard,” she started her speech. “When I ask for more dance classes, I heard yes. More voice lessons, yes. A different, wig, fake teeth not made out of rubber, yes. All these things require effort and cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honour Gwen Verdon.” Check out the video below. Emmys 2019 Red Carpet Highlights: Kendall Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow Attend the Soiree

Further thanking how her studio values a person and not their gender, Williams continued, “Because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value.” She added, “Where do they put that value? they put it into their work. So, the next time a woman, especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterparts, tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her, because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.”

Needless to say, her powerful speech with sublime presentation unsurprisingly got her a standing ovation. The points put forth by Williams has already become a topic of discussion on social media.

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