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King did a little dance as she stood barefoot
in the wet cement, and etched "No place like home" under her
name, the opening line of the theme song for "227", the TV
series from the late 1980s in which she first gained attention.
"This means so much," King said during the ceremony. "A lot of
people are going to see this and they're going to think it comes
from 'The Wizard of Oz', but it comes from my beginning."
In 2019, King won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her
performance in "If Beale Street Could Talk", a film adaptation
of a James Baldwin novel.
She made her feature film directorial debut last year with the
drama "One Night in Miami...", which imagines a meeting between
activist Malcolm X, boxer Muhammad Ali, NFL player Jim Brown and
singer Sam Cooke in February 1964.
"It is a sight to see the force of your connection and your care
and creativity and desire for community is a marvel, and it's
been a pleasure to be in your orbit," fellow filmmaker Ava
DuVernay told King at the ceremony on Thursday. "Your talent
knows no bounds."
King next stars in Netflix's new Western movie https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/the-harder-they-fall-opens-london-film-festival-with-glam-red-carpet-2021-10-06
"The Harder They Fall," inspired by real-life African-American
cowboys.
"There's not a time limit, there's not a stale date on achieving
your dreams," King said as encouragement to anyone looking to
follow in her footsteps. "If you love what you do, you should
never stop working at it."
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Writing by Karishma Singh;
Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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