Sterling K. Brown spoke about the Time’s Up movement during Sunday’s SAG Awards, saying he hopes it will make everyone become “a bit more thoughtful.”

“For me, it has been a wonderful opportunity to take stock of the fact that I actually have privilege, that I have male privilege,” he said backstage. “I take a lot of things for granted. I remember when my wife and I lived in New York, we’d be up late for rehearsal, and I’d say I want to take the subway home. And she was like, ‘I ain’t taking the subway home, it’s 12 o clock.’ I was like, ‘The subway’s perfectly safe, what are you talking about?’ And so I’d get in the cab with her, and she’d be like, ‘It might be safe for you or you might think it’s safe for you, but it’s a different world for me’… It’s always the responsibility of the minority to understand how to negotiate the majority’s world. Black people have to know how to live in a white world. Gay people have to know how to live in a straight world. Women have to know how to live in a man’s world. But it’s nice when people who are at the top take a second to look at and consider what it’s like for the minority.”

“What is nice about the Time’s Up movement for me is just taking stock of the fact that there are certain things that have not registered and I need to be more conscientious,” he continued. “Hopefully, it registers with other men in a similar way that things that are funny to you may not be funny to everyone. There is a responsibility that we have to make sure that our work environment is comfortable for all because it’s not always about malicious and nastiness. Sometimes it’s about downright thoughtlessness, and we can all stand to be a bit more thoughtful.”

H/T: Entertainment Weekly