Innholdsfortegnelse for Emmy Special Issue 20A June 2019 i The Hollywood Reporter

In a quest to recognize the massive quantity and variety of programming in Peak TV, the TV Academy has created so many categories that they have to be presented over three nights, two known as the Primetime Creative Arts Emmys (recognizing mostly technical and crafts work) and the third as the Primetime Emmys. Some categories are incredibly specific, such as makeup for a multicamera series or special (non-prosthetic); others, like drama series, are straightforward. But there is a lot of gray area in between, within which Emmy hopefuls seek their strongest position, resulting in some situations that may seem puzzling. Consider Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Season one won best drama series in 2017, season two was nominated in 2018 and season three, which drops June 5, won’t be eligible until…

Sophie Turner made her professional acting debut as Sansa Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones back in 2010, when she was just 14 years old. With the series’ May 19 finale, the 23-year-old actress’ character secured her rule in the North, and Turner closed this chapter in her career (she’ll soon appear in the next X-Men installment, Dark Phoenix). Turner spoke to THR about Sansa’s royal ending, her tearfilled final day and why she’s ready to say goodbye to Westeros forever — even if some Stark lessons will stay with her. What were your thoughts when you first learned how Game of Throneswould end? I really loved that the story begins with the Starks and ends with the Starks. Overall, I liked it. The thing is that for 10 years,…

It can be impossible to predict the direction of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Comedy Showrunner Roundtable when a group of deeply funny storytellers sits down. In fact, had someone suggested that Vida’s Tanya Saracho, 43, would be giving her peers — including Barry’s Bill Hader, 40; Ramy’s Jerrod Carmichael, 32; and Shrill’s Ali Rushfield, 47 — a highly entertaining if deadly serious lesson in taco protocol during this late April conversation, we never would have believed it. The same could be said about the proper way to load a dishwasher (thank you, Forever’s Alan Yang, 37) or to slice butter (and you, Veep’s David Mandel, 48), and yet those, too, were among the many unexpected topics as this savvy sextet let loose, sharing everything from the secrets of the writers…

Caitriona Balfe Claire Fraser Outlander (Starz) Claire and Jamie (Sam Heughan) found themselves stranded after a tumultuous storm at the end of season three. As they build a new home together in North Carolina in season four, Claire’s worlds collide when their daughter, Brianna (Sophie Skelton), travels through time to save her parents. WHEN WAS A TIME YOU THOUGHT YOUR CHARACTER WAS A BADASS? When I get moments to have Claire on the fly be her surgeon self and do something quite fantastic, those always feel quite gratifying — those kind of personal heroic moments in her fight against injustice and things like that. IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER YOU’RE STILL CURIOUS ABOUT? The beauty about being on season five of a show is that you get to evolve.…

For a relatively new and rare diagnosis, Munchausen syndrome by proxy has garnered quite a bit of screen time. The syndrome, in which a caretaker either fabricates an illness for a victim or induces it in them, entered the public consciousness only four decades ago, when British doctor Roy Meadow coined the term in a 1977 research paper. But since it made its pop-cultural debut in Nancy Wright’s 1984 true-crime book A Mother’s Trial, it has resurfaced onscreen every few years — on TV shows like The X-Files, Law & Order, Scrubs and True Detective and in films including The Sixth Sense, It and Everything, Everything — titles that capitalize on the syndrome’s dramatic potential, if not always adhering to its realities. Despite all this media attention, Munchausen syndrome by…

OLIVIA COLMAN Fleabag (Amazon) The newly minted Oscar winner reprised her role as the hilariously snide godmother of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s titular London cafe owner. Planning her wedding to Fleabag’s father in season two, Godmother still finds time for her erotic painting. BETTY GILPIN GLOW (Netflix) She rang Emmy’s “Liberty Belle” with her nom for season one of Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s feminist hit. In season two, her Debbie navigates becoming a producer on the show within GLOW and her precarious friendship with Ruth (Alison Brie). JAMEELA JAMIL The Good Place (NBC) “Congratulations, Beautiful,” indeed. In her first acting role as Tahani, Jamil has made her ever-so-casually name-dropping philanthropist — who “set up Harry and Meghan” — into a fan favorite in the Good Place, the Bad Place and beyond.…

Debra Messing WILL & GRACE (NBC) “I bring a joy of physical comedy and trying to find opportunities for that and for finding the emotional undercurrent and turning the gas up on it so that the stakes are really, really high. Eric [McCormack] is a master at the dry wit and such a smart comic actor, and that in a way makes Grace look less intelligent, which I think is funny. There is some kind of intangible chemical alchemy that happens with us, and it happened from the very first moment that we met and we read together. And there’s something really beautiful coming back together after 12 years and realizing that it’s just still there, that the years really didn’t change us creatively in that way. Both of us…

D’Arcy Carden’s The Good Place character, Janet, is — as she frequently explains — not a girl, and also not a robot: The closest approximation is a sentient Siri who can kick ass and fall in love. But despite Janet’s indefinable nature, or perhaps because of it, Carden has been a breakout among a strong ensemble, and the NBC comedy’s third season gave the Bay Area native even more opportunity to show her range. In “Janet(s),” she channeled all four human characters — Kristen Bell’s jaded Eleanor, William Jackson Harper’s nervous Chidi, Jameela Jamil’s snooty Tahani and Manny Jacinto’s dim-witted Jason — in an episode that could have felt like an overlong Saturday Night Live sketch but instead was an emotional standout for the series. Carden, 39, reveals how she…

Julia Roberts, who has never won an Emmy but this year appears to be a strong contender for an acting nomination with Amazon’s Homecoming, made her first appearance on television in 1987 as a juvenile survivor of sexual assault on NBC’s Michael Mann-produced Crime Story. She was 19. “Julia was unusually magnetic,” says writer David Burke. “She really popped when she was onscreen. You knew she was in it for the long haul, that was clear.” The series (where Kevin Spacey at 28 and Ving Rhames at 26 got early TV acting jobs) had become something of a surprise hit for NBC. The plot involved two men, one a cop (Dennis Farina) and the other a mafioso (Anthony Denison), who stalk each other in early 1960s Las Vegas. Crime Story was…