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Jean Smart makes Emmys history as Hollywood stars gather
Los Angeles | Widow’s Bay, starring Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, stormed the Emmy Awards, breaking a record for a comedy series with 14 awards, including best comedy series and three acting wins.
The first-season horror comedy about a New England island community reckoning with a centuries-old curse spoiled the going-away party for Hacks, which received the most comedy nominations of any show in its fifth and final season.
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Jean Smart stuns with fifth Emmy for Hacks
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Widow's Bay, a comedy and horror series about a cursed New England town, has dominated the Primetime Emmy Awards with six honors, and emergency room drama The Pitt has won its second consecutive Emmy for best drama.
Apple TV's first season Widow's Bay overcame the final season of previous winner Hacks to earn the comedy prize.
Hacks star Jean Smart won her fifth Emmy for portraying tenacious stand-up comic Deborah Vance, and Matthew Rhys became the first person to win two lead acting honours at the same ceremony, including one for his role as a small-town mayor on Widow's Bay.
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The Girls Get to Sit Down
The actor’s history-making Emmys win was a recognition of female performers who refuse to placate.
The actor Jean Smart began her acceptance speech at the Emmys tonight with a request: “Just the men stay standing,” she said to the applauding crowd before her. “The girls get to sit down.”
She had just won her fifth-straight award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on HBO Max’s Hacks, about the tender and testy friendship between an unfiltered comedy legend (played by Smart) and an apprehensive Gen Z comedy writer (Hannah Einbinder). As she clutched her statuette, Smart acknowledged the squeezing and taping and blister-inducing heels that had likely gone into her peers’ glamorous award-show getups. Her well-dressed colleagues in the crowd, she joked, must be muttering, “She’s not that good”—as in, not so talented as to merit a standing ovation that required maneuvering in uncomfortable gowns.
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