She rang their bells.
Kristen Bell hosted the SAG Awards 2025, and during her opening monologue, the actress had a segment that many actors in the room seemed horrified and taken aback by.
Bell, 44, broke into a song about how everyone in the room used to dream of being an actor. On the screen behind her, she showed footage of various actors in their early career roles.
The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actress showed a clip of Kieran Culkin as a kid in “Home Alone,” Zoe Saldaña in “Crossroads,” Selena Gomez in “Barney & Friends” and Colin Farrell, Andrew Scott, Timothée Chalamet and Harrison Ford in their early roles.
All the while, the camera kept cutting to the actors sitting in the audience to show their reactions in the room.
Zoe Saldana in the audience reacts to a clip of herself in “Crossroads.” NETFLIX
Molly Shannon laughs at a clip of herself as Mary Catherine Gallagher. NETFLIX
Kieran Culkin at the 2025 SAG awards laughs as a clip of himself in “Home Alone” plays on-screen. NETFLIXAs they saw their younger selves on-screen, many of them grimaced and looked amusingly horrified.
Molly Shannon cackled at seeing a clip of herself as her “Saturday Night Live” Catholic schoolgirl character, Mary Katherine Gallagher.
“Do you wanna be an actor? Let’s get your foot inside the door,” Bell sang as the images played behind her.
Elsewhere in her monologue, before she sang, Bell said, “Everyone in this room — everyone started out as a kid in somewhere, earth, going to bed and waking up every morning thinking, ‘It’s gonna be me.’”
The “Veronica Mars” star quipped, “So yes, Justin Timberlake owes us all a piece of that song, look for my email petition.”
She added, “There are a lot of pennies in fountains across the globe that all hold this shared dream.”
Kristen Bell during her monologue at the 2025 SAG awards. Getty Images
Selena Gomez grimaces at a clip of herself in “Barney” as Kristen Bell sings at the 2025 SAG awards. NETFLIX
Timothee Chalamet laughs and grimaces at a clip of himself in an early role. NETFLIX
Harrison Ford grimacing and laughing as a clip of his early work plays on-screen and Kristen Bell sings. NETFLIXBell also paused for a serious moment to acknowledge the tables of Los Angeles firefighters attending the glitzy night.
Bell was also nominated for a SAG trophy for her role in the Netflix rom-com “Nobody Wants This” during tonight’s show but lost to “Hacks” actress Jean Smart. Bell’s co-star, Adam Brody, also earned a nomination.
Netflix broadcasted the SAG Awards for the second year in a row.
