Well, one last hooray, I think. Right now, you’re looking at some of the luckiest people on the planet and some of the most grateful, because not only did we get to all work on one of the best television shows, you know maybe ever, we made friends for life. I think the magic of “Succession” was that the writing was so fabulous, it inspired all of us to bring our A game from the very beginning and we got off on watching each other work and we caught lightning in a bottle. Lucky, you know? So now we are thrilled to be recognized by our peers, and so on behalf of Brian and Snooki and Jeremy who can’t be here. Thank you to our fellow actors for giving us this award. Thanks for everyone at HBO - Casey, Franny, Nora, everyone for being so smart. Thanks to Francine Maisler for casting us, for giving us this gift. Thanks to our lovely crew who could never do enough for us. Thanks to Mark Mylod, and all of our directors who guided us through all of the nuances. Mostly, thank you to Jesse Armstrong for having this idea and for hiring the most glorious writers room, and they just kept delivering the gold. You honor us and we honor them. Thank you.
I don’t have any shoes on. Truly, I was not expecting this. People say that, and I really am not. I don’t really know what to say, so I'm going to wing it. Thank you, thank you SAG-AFTRA. The women in my category I watch with total awe and I learn how to do my craft watching you, so being nominated next to you is incredible. I really, really love my job. About a week ago, I had the flu, I was lying in bed, I had a memory. I was thinking about childhood and I was thinking about a happy memory and I remembered the first time I was every cast in a play, and it was in my year 5, I was 10. I think someone's parent wrote it. I think it was about kids getting along. I don’t think it was an actual play. Somebody gave me that part on the last day of school and it was a 15-minute walk home and I think I just levitated home. I was so happy. And I feel like that every time someone gives me a job. Thank you for this. It means so much to me. To my beautiful “Crown” family and so many of you are here tonight. It is a joy to work with you. This job is such a gift. It’s my mum’s birthday, happy birthday mum. Thank you so much.
Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a Drama Series
Cast of BELLA RAMSEY
THE LAST OF US
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THE LAST OF US
Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a Drama Series
Cast of KERI RUSSELL
THE DIPLOMAT
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THE DIPLOMAT
Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a Drama Series
This is wrong for a number of reasons. I’m a little drunk. I thought I could get drunk. And thank you, HBO. Uh, Jeez Louise. I'm making a fool of myself, but thank you so much for this. I’ve been in the union since 1999 so this is an incredible fucking honor, we are on Netflix. To the nominees, all of you, I can’t remember any of your names right now. To Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann, Franny, to Casey at HBO. It's very appropriate you’ve given me a job because I grew up watching your network. I have no other skills. I have no other interests. So the least you could do is give me a job. Franklin and Sue, you're with me here tonight. My family, you're maybe watching tonight, I don't know. I’m going to have a panic attack and I'm going to leave.
This is so crazy. Thank you guys so much. We're so, so honored. We want to thank FX. We want to thank John Landgraf and everyone there. Chris Storer, Joanna Calo, our producers, our brilliant, brilliant writers. Jeanie Bacharach, our casting director. We are so unbelievably grateful to you. The crew, the costume team, Courtney. Hair and makeup, Ali and Ignacio. You guys have helped create these characters with us and you’re true artists. We also want to thank everyone who supported actors along the way, our parents, drama teachers, friends who let us sleep on their couches for months on end, people who have helped self tape auditions, restaurants who have given us free beer after comedy shows and plays, thank you so much. This is for you, thank you.
Outstanding Performance by an
Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Hi, hello. This is insane. Okay, I am so grateful. I am really, really just grateful. I’m looking out at this room of people whose work moves me and motivates me and makes me feel and laugh and I’m so grateful to be here. I'm so thankful to be nominated alongside some just incredible women and profound performances. And I’m going to butcher, just really bastardize a James Baldwin quote - because I heard it the other day. The act of love is really just the act of mirroring and I think anything that anybody sees in me that is worth anything is because of the people who love me and support me and have made me who I am. And one of the biggest displays of that is “The Bear'' and the cast and crew of that show. I just wouldn’t be possible without you guys, you’re a miracle and I’m so grateful to be in your company. It’s made me a better person. I hope a better actor. Thank you so much again. This is very cool. Goodbye.
Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Hi, wow. Thank you so much. First, I just have to say, Ebon - you are so so excellent in everything you do, especially in the second season of "The Bear." The work you do is so incredible. I love you so so much, and the rest of my cast and my crew, I will be thanking you guys for the rest of my life. I am so honored to be in this community. I’ve wanted to be a part of this community for my whole life. I had no back up plan. I started very young and I’m so incredibly touched to be standing in front of you all today and to get this from my peers who I admire so much, thank you. Ezra and Louis, I love you. Wow, they give you a lot of time with this one, but that’s all I have.
I have to, of course, thank Sunny and Steven and Jake and the rest of the cast and crew of "Beef." I want to thank Netflix so much for all of your support throughout the years, starting with my very first stand-up special “Baby Cobra” in 2016. Thank you for always believing me and that I could do anything. Lastly, I want to thank my 83-year old mother who is here tonight. Who is here in her pearls and her Tevas because she doesn’t give a fuck. I know it was really hard when I told you I wanted to do stand-up comedy and I hope you feel it has all worked out.
Oh, this is Pedro’s. I’m going to keep this. I have to thank first, Sunny, Ali, Jake. Thank you for going on this ride, for building this thing. Thank you to Netflix and A24. Thank you to my lovely wife Jo, thank you to my lovely family. Thank you to my mom and my dad who didn’t say no hard enough to have me to stop doing this. It’s so crazy, I was reminded outside of the first job that I had that got me my SAG card and it was being in a vat of fake caramel wriggling around in a speedo for a Milky Way commercial. And honestly, I felt just as hyped to get that card then as I am to receive this here now. I'm very honored to be here in this room with all of you. I'm very honored to be nominated with these incredible artists. I want to thank, finally, my incredible acting coach and dear friend Debra. Whenever we’d work on something, I’d just be like, oh no, you don’t get it. It’s a specific Korean thing that I’m talking about, and god bless her, she was like no honey, that’s what we all go through. And that was so important to me so thank you Deb, I appreciate you all. Thank you so much.
