Emmys: ‘Succession’ Creator Says “Un-Thank You” to Trump, Media Moguls While Accepting Outstanding Drama Award – Hollywood Reporter

8: 12 PM PDT 9/20/2020

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Katie Kilkenny

The COVID-19 virus, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson had been all name-checked in Jesse Armstrong’s unconventional acceptance speech.

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong gave an extraordinary acceptance speech as the HBO dramedy received the only drama prize at the Emmy Awards on Sunday.

The British writer-producer gave a series of “un-thank yous” to a different of people in some unspecified time in the future of the route of his speech, which was once interrupted briefly by the ring of a telephone in the background. “Thanks very unheard of indeed. This is such a extraordinarily nice second and or not it is entirely sad not to be with the cast and a number of the crew to share it with you all tonight, nonetheless this is an efficient looking out fulfillment for the total crew,” Armstrong acknowledged as he patched in from a resort room.

Because the telephone rang while he started his speech, Armstrong explained, “Room service, doubtlessly,” and Succession actor Kieran Culkin will be considered laughing from a separate a long way away video feed.

Armstrong persisted, “But for being robbed of the opportunity to exercise this time with our peers and with the cast and crew, I’ve I would presumably deal with to get some un-thank yous. Un-thank you to the virus for conserving us all apart this 365 days,” he acknowledged. “Un-thank you to Trump for his crummy and uncoordinated response, un-thank you to Boris Johnson and his authorities for doing the identical in my country, un-thank you to the total nationalist and quasi-nationalist governments on this planet that are precisely the different of what we need at the moment and un-thank you to the media moguls who get so unheard of to preserve them in energy. So un-thank you.”

This was once an strangely political speech for Amstrong: Even though Succession bears real parallels to media-filthy rich individual families along with the Redstones and Murdochs, to boot as alternate dynasties deal with the Trumps, Armstrong customarily ever name-tests any of these people in his discussions about the show.

In the help of the curtain, Armstrong acknowledged that he and his British colleagues would celebrate “confidently by going to breakfast since it’s 4 a.m. [in the U.K.] and in case something determined came about I didn’t drink anything so I’m hoping for a champagne breakfast with this dazzling crew.” He added, “It’s the roughly event an outmoded individual would own.”

Succession was once nominated 18 times in 2020, for excellent drama series, excellent writing for a drama series, excellent directing for a drama series (for 2 separate directors), excellent lead actor in a drama series (Brian Cox and Jeremy True), excellent supporting actor in a drama series (Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun), excellent customer actor in a drama series (James Cromwell), excellent customer actress in a drama series (Cherry Jones, Harriet Walter), excellent casting for a drama series, excellent music composition for a series (genuine dramatic score),  excellent single-camera image editing for a drama series (for 2 separate editors) and excellent manufacturing get for a story as a lot as the moment program (one Hour or more) nominations. The series total received seven awards, along with excellent lead actor in a drama series for Jeremy True.

The 72nd primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, aired on ABC at 5 p.m. PT. Kimmel hosted from Los Angeles’ Staples Center, while honorees and presenters broadcast from a long way away areas.