Jamie Lee Curtis has clinched her first Emmy win, within the Visitor Actress in a Comedy Collection class, for her work in FX’s The Bear Season 2’s acclaimed episode, “Fishes” — and he or she feels just like the “luckiest woman on this planet.”
Her success on the awards present comes after her first Academy Award win this yr, for Greatest Supporting Actress for her efficiency within the buzzy The whole lot In every single place All At As soon as.
“I’ve been an actor since I used to be 19,” she instructed Deadline at evening two of the Inventive Arts Emmys. “I’m 65. I offered yogurt that makes you sh– for seven years. I simply by no means thought in my life that I’d get to do work at this stage of depth and complexity. It’s simply been the fun of my artistic life these final couple of years.”
When requested if she is going to go for the EGOT (she’ll want Grammy and Tony wins subsequent), the veteran actress mentioned, “I can’t sing in any respect, and I’ve by no means been on stage. Really, I’ve by no means completed a play and so I can’t think about. I don’t keep up that late.”
Nonetheless, she conceded: “However you already know what? I by no means thought any of this was going to be attainable in my life in any respect. So the truth that this has occurred, I’m one thing of a late bloomer. I’m completely a giant late bloomer. I’ve realized so much late in my life, and I’m additionally very affected person.”
Talking extra broadly of her late success and the character of the trade, notably because it treats older ladies, she mentioned: “I believe we’re all underestimated. And as actors, you simply hustle for a job — any job. Have a look at my profession. I’ve completed a number of bizarre stuff as a result of I simply love the method. That is an trade filled with rejection. You might be rejected day by day — day by day — whenever you’re an actor.”
She added of The Bear, “You already know, there’s a saying: Damage individuals damage individuals. I additionally suppose you’ll be able to add to that: Helped individuals assist individuals.”
Within the blood-pumping, chaotic and tense episode — a flashback installment that traces Carmy’s (Jeremy Allen White) dysfunctional household at a vacation dinner — Curtis portrays the neurotic and alcohol-addled Berzatto matriarch. Toggling between outbursts of yelling and matches of crying, she paints a troublesome, painful picture of a relative in want, over the course of an episode that doubles the standard runtime, with 66 minutes. As a visitor actress, she can be joined by Jon Bernthal (who received the male model of the class), John Mulaney, Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Paulson.
“That is actually the story of The Bear,” she continued, “and to be the supply of somebody’s ache could be very troublesome and but to look at this group of individuals come collectively — each the kitchen household and the household household — work it out is astonishing.”
A robust Emmys contender and favourite, The Bear has additionally seen wins tonight within the following classes: Image Modifying for a Single-Digicam Comedy Collection and Casting for a Comedy Collection. (You may maintain up-to-date on the winners right here.)
Curtis’ win marks her first on the awards ceremony. She was beforehand nominated in 1998, for the Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Film, for her flip in Nicolas’ Present.
An edited presentation of the Inventive Arts Emmys will air Saturday, Sept. 14 at 8 P.M. on FXX. With tonight’s second evening, held in downtown Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, 48 extra Emmys might be handed out in classes that modify from visitor actress in a drama to image enhancing for an anthology. In the meantime, an extra 25 awards might be handed out on the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 15. ABC will air that present dwell coast-to-coast beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, additionally from the Peacock Theater.
Lynette Rice contributed to this report.
