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DRAMA F. Murray Abraham, Homeland (SHOWTIME) This first Emmy nom for the Oscar winner comes for his portrayal of a Black Ops CIA agent in a year when his show roared back from the dead. His episode submission is the heart-pounding season finale. Alan Alda, The Blacklist (NBC) The TV legend has six wins in five categories, but never in this one. Playing a veteran intelligence officer with a pipe bomb strapped around his neck, he has an incredible final scene that ends with a bang. Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex (SHOWTIME) This is the seventh guest acting nom (and second in a row for this show) for this three-time winner, whose married, closeted gay character tries to eliminate his homosexuality and then tries to eliminate himself. PROJECTED WINNER! Reg…
Anthony Anderson Black-ish (ABC) Proudest moment After screening our pilot across the country, the most common response was, “When I watch your show, I see my family on the screen.” It moved me that this feedback came from a mixed group of viewers. Playing this role, I’ve learned That if I’m honest with myself, I will be honest with others. Couldn’t get into character without Sleep and a thumping groove and bass. Funniest on-set moment Me walking around the set all day — in character — in nothing but a dance belt and flip-flops. Favorite way to kill time on set Watching the Food Network, ESPN and the Golf Channel. When I got my first big check from acting, I Moved out of my mother’s house. Dream TV role Huck…
ONE OF THE YEAR’S MOST stirring performances came from Ben Mendelsohn, whose Danny Rayburn — the bad seed of a prominent Florida Keys family — in Netflix’s Bloodline has landed him a nomination for best supporting actor in a drama series. The 46-year-old Aussie, who broke out in the 2010 crime drama Animal Kingdom and recently was cast in the Star Wars spinoff film Rogue One, spoke with THR about his roller-coaster career, bad-guy typecasting and the two things that terrified him about acting. How did you hear the news that you’d been nominated for an Emmy? I was doing a film scene in a prison stall while feces was being rubbed on me, so it was something of a yin and yang moment. I was happy but mostly glad…
House of Cards NETFLIX A re-creation of a fanlight window on the set of the White House’s West Sitting Hall proved one of the most complex set pieces that were built for season three of the political soap opera. “Just getting the geometry correct for the initial layout required several tries,” says production designer Steve Arnold. “The curved muntins and window sash pieces, along with the window jambs and casing, were all milled from solid sections of wood at the various diameters needed. The ornamental rosettes, stars and other decorative carvings were sculpted from photographs, and then molds were made from which duplicate copies were cast. We chose to install antiquestyle wavy glass to match what really exists at the White House. We had the heating-register vents in the windowsills…
OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES (NONPROSTHETIC) Sons of Anarchy “Faith and Despondency” FX • Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions TRACEY ANDERSON Department Head Makeup Artist “This episode has everything: new characters like the white supremacists, Venus Van Dam and the transgender escort played by Walton Goggins. The episode opens with everyone — all the couples — nude and having sex. We called it a ‘f—tage’ instead of a montage. This involved all the guys — and girls — sweaty and writhing with full-body tattoos, even ones on Marilyn Manson’s butt. Some actors, like Charlie [Hunnam], have their own large back tattoos that we have to cover up and then put the gang tats on. We have a torture scene, someone’s eye being yanked out, wound progression and…
COMPETITIVE reality shows might be hard on the contestants, but they even can be harder on the cinematographers and camera crews that capture the often unpredictable action. Here, the five nominees this year reveal the real behind-thescenes risks. THE AMAZING RACE CBS For the globe-trotting series’ cinematography team, everything happens in real time. “There’s no going back and re-creating it; you’re running after people who are racing around the globe for $1 million,” says director of photography Peter Rieveschl. “The fear factor is not so much, ‘I’ll be hanging from a helicopter,’ as it’s, ‘I don’t know where they’re leading me,’ ” he adds. “Safety is a huge issue. But also, the idea is to operate in reality; there are very few scenes where we will intervene.” There occasionally are…
