Gillian Anderson reads a letter about Eleanor Roosevelt

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In 1962, acclaimed war reporter Martha Gellhorn wrote to US politician Adlai Stevenson about the death of their dear mutual friend, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Gillian Anderson joined us at London's Royal Albert Hall in October 2021 to read this moving and beautiful letter.
Watch Gillian read a letter of advice to her 16-year-old self:
• Gillian Anderson reads...
Letter © the Estate of Martha Gellhorn

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@teslagirl1 Жыл бұрын

I knew a mining family in the Appalachians who had her picture on the wall with their family photos. Eleanor's photo had the place of honor and the best frame. They had met her during a very bad time in their lives and always said that they felt like she was the first person from the outside world who ever really MEANT what she said...the first not trying to ruthlessly exploit their resources and labor or mock their poverty...the first who made a difference.

@lionheart4529 Жыл бұрын

Eurocentric history will SOON pass away!

@CatsandJP Жыл бұрын

Beautiful and if it wasn’t for Ms Roosevelt and the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” part of it being “born free with dignity and rights” which we all need to strive towards and uphold today and into the future. As Harry S Truman so aptly said she was The Woman of the World.

@dlanska Жыл бұрын

Just the right tone of voice for this. Poignant and heart-felt.

@AmandaJYoungs Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful tribute to an exceptional woman!

@julieroberts3871 Жыл бұрын

According to Publisher's Weekly, the writer of the letter is Martha Gellhorn. She was a novelist and war correspondent. She is writing to Adlai Stevenson who US Ambassador to the United Nations at the time. She probably knew Eleanor through her war work. Gellhorn died at in 1998 at the age of 90. There is a book of her correspondence called, "Your for Probably Always."

@jq8974 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these details 🙏🏾

@carolynworthington8996 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding this.

@yumpox 10 ай бұрын

A shame that that biopic Anderson wanted to do about Gelhorn in the early 2000s never happened. At least she got to play Eleanor Roosevelt.

@scottlang7271 2 ай бұрын

A certainty of honour. What an epitaph for a friend to say about you. Something for us all to aspire to. And thank you, Mrs. Roosevelt, for your efforts.

@michellerhodes9910 Жыл бұрын

I found that deeply moving. When one hears of a person in history 'oh she was this.. oh she was that...' but to have these words of mourning from someone who really knew the individual is beyond description. Beautifully read.

@jq8974 Жыл бұрын

I am Canadian, but I do not sound like small town Canada. There is a difference between my accent, and my American friends, but they have many accents, and so do we. Gillian gets the region right on this, as well as the tone AND the era. It’s so subtle, but it touched me deeply, because it was so right. Not overplayed. Not underplayed. Beautiful. For a beautiful woman. 🙏🏾

@loraineriddell7157 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully read ❤️.

@matthewallen1894 Жыл бұрын

Who writes so beautifully these days?

@Vic82toire 6 ай бұрын

Nobody.

@mrmaxin53 10 ай бұрын

her American accent is so natural

@daniellerobeque3706 Жыл бұрын

you are incredible my dear Gillian , i love you

@tjmcguire9417 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Gillian. well read, I now know Martha. A true hero. How is it even possible that an Ernest Hemingway can even for a short time overshadow a person of this calibre?

@jbrubin8274 Жыл бұрын

And once again I find myself thankful that I do not have roommates. I’m pretty sure my 3:46am outburst of, “Dang-it Gillian! You got me crying again.” This wouldn’t have gone over well. I’d one hundred percent paying for a ‘weekend’ one day. Were real life, still- Worth it.

@leannecmoo Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@AndrewsOpinion15 Жыл бұрын

GILLIAN ANDERSON LOOK NICE AT LETTERS LIVE !!!!

@op3129 Жыл бұрын

trying to wrap my head around that people wrote letters to others that were so ... literary. (fwiw, Rusty Bowers' diary entries from 2022 are on same par: "OMG. mine are like 'spaghettios cold straight from the can are O.G.!!' today didn't suck bc still had spaghettios.' ") I'm exaggerating for effect. if I kept a diary, I wouldn't bother mentioning spaghettios.

@Sweetlyfe Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 classic, don’t despair it’s written by a War reporter, so a writer, so wonderfully brought to life by Gillian Anderson’s reading.

@KenMatthews-bd3ok 6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@turtleislandlac1490 Жыл бұрын

In her American accent. Maybe because it was an American letter.

@gnarbeljo8980 Жыл бұрын

Of course!

@camipco Жыл бұрын

Well that substantially lowered my opinion of FDR...

@gracejessen3660 Жыл бұрын

Their relationship was extremely complex. Read Doris Kearns Goodman: "No Ordinary Time" about this

@lancer525 Жыл бұрын

FDR was a man, nothing more. Although it could be said, and rightfully so, that he literally saved the United States during the Great Depression, he was, at best, only a man. The thing that set him apart from other leaders of the time was that his first instinctive thought wasn't "will this make me look good" or "how will this benefit me?". Instead it was "will this help and benefit any others?" Today, we don't see many leaders with that kind of courage, and so many remember fondly the days when our leaders were more than just that. All too often we canonize our heroes, deify our role-models, and pedestalize our celebrities to the point that we are self-blinded into an inability to recognize or acknowledge their human flaws. Did he do great things? Yes. Was he a shrewd, forward-thinking, visionary of a politician? Without doubt. But at base, he was just a man. We need to remind ourselves of that, that our leaders aren't messiahs, that they aren't supernatural, that they aren't infallible. We need to remind ourselves of that, from time to time.