Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 19A - June 15, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

Iknew I’d been sucked into Netflix’s Queen Charlotte when 21-year-old star India Amarteifio offers her first onscreen sneer. Playing the young version of Bridgerton’s capricious royal (Golda Rosheuvel) in this prequel series, the actress showcases plenty of theatrical rebellion by smashing busts and monologuing about all the ways her corsetry could kill her. She’s cutting and caustic in her small, safe German principality. But once she arrives a powerless pawn at the English court, she must suddenly play-act the role of submissive consort. Yet, as her future mother-in-law (Michelle Fairley) encircles her in a palace apartment, Charlotte can barely tolerate this vile inspection of her body parts. “You have good hips,” Augusta proclaims, pulling on Charlotte’s bodice. “You will make lots of babies. As many babies as possible for my…

Black Bird (Apple TV+) Dennis Lehane’s six-part drama is based on James Keene’s memoir In With the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption. Despite its true-crime trappings, the adaptation is never especially authentic or convincing on any factual level. It is, however, thoroughly unsettling and anchored by exceptional performances by Paul Walter Hauser, Taron Egerton and Ray Liotta, who collectively more than compensate for myriad flaws of structure and focus. Our hero is Jimmy Keene (Egerton), a onetime high school football star turned drug dealer. After a bust that also yields illegal firearms, Jimmy is sentenced to 10 years in prison, much to the chagrin of his excop father (Liotta). Because he’s confident, hunky and a good listener, Jimmy gets an offer from…

COMEDY GUEST ACTOR Dave Chappelle Saturday Night Live (NBC) The controversial comedian hosted SNL after the 2022 midterm elections and delivered a divisive monologue. He also hosted right after the ’16 and ’20 elections and won this category’s Emmy for each. Voters don’t seem to mind the noise around him. Leslie Odom Jr. Abbott Elementary (ABC) For his turn on the hit’s second season as the deliciously villainous Draemond Winding, a former Abbott student who runs a charter school company and argues that Abbott is failing its kids, Odom could be Emmy-nominated for the fourth year in a row. Brad Pitt Dave (FXX) The A-lister, a fan of Dave Burd’s show, cameoed in its season three finale, his first appearance on a scripted comedy since doing Friends 22 years ago.…

For the six top writer-producers who gathered over Zoom in late April for THR’s Showrunner Roundtable, the idea of a potential WGA strike was spoken of like an inevitability. And it was. With pens down since May 1, each participant has been out of work — including Tony Gilroy, who stepped away from season two of his pricey Star Wars series, Andor. But his deal to make that season, without a piece of the proverbial pie, is one of the reasons he supported a strike. “All I’ve ever wanted is to walk into the casino that I grew up in and bet on myself,” said Gilroy, to nods of agreement from Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Fleishman Is in Trouble), Ryan Condal (House of the Dragon), Katori Hall (P-Valley), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters)…

Jodi Balfour For All Mankind The Apple TV+ drama is set in an alternate reality in which Soviet Russia won the space race and landed the first person on the moon. Balfour plays Ellen Wilson, an astronaut turned NASA administrator turned senator turned U.S. president — who, after being elected in 1992, shocks the nation when she comes out as a lesbian. Toni Collette The Power Based on the 2016 novel of the same name, this Prime Video sci-fi series is set in a world in which teenage girls realize that their fingertips can electrically shock others. They quickly learn how to awaken this power in their elder counterparts. Collette plays Seattle mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, a mother of two daughters and a son. Tawny Cypress Yellowjackets In Showtime’s smash hit,…

JASMINE CEPHAS JONES Blindspotting (Starz) In Blindspotting, Jones plays Ashley Rose, a mother raising her young son with the help of her partner’s family while he serves time in prison for drug trafficking. “She’s very strong and puts her family first,” says Jones of her stoic character. “I always look at her as the superhero. There’s a lot of women like this in the world, who do it all in one day.” Where Ashley doesn’t need to keep it all together is in the moments when her character breaks the fourth wall, expressing her emotions in verse. “If you’re ever wondering how she’s feeling, this is the moment where she tells a secret to the audience,” explains Jones. “Usually, it’s a lot of pent-up feelings she needs to really express.…

Saturday Night Live is quickly becoming the Ego Nwodim show. She didn’t get many shining moments during the two seasons she spent as a featured player after joining the cast in 2018, but SNL has more than made up for it in the years since. Her Dionne Warwick impression inspired Warwick herself, who once referred to Nwodim in a tweet as “that young lady,” to make a cameo. Nwodim also has enjoyed viral hits with the well-done-steak-cutting, table-shaking Lisa From Temecula, the vibes-only talk show “Girl Talk,” a lawless Black Ariel protesting her heroic prestige in The Little Mermaid and a parody of the saucy Hulu series A Teacher. SNL standouts often show up in the Emmy supporting categories, and Nwodim could very well make this year’s nominations. In recognition…