By Stacy Lambe
9:47 AM PDT, August 21, 2017
Alison Wright, ‘The Americans’
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“I’ve been very lucky this year, I can only hope to be as lucky going forward from here,” she says before recalling a message she received from FX president John Landgraf. “He sent me an email the other day, and said he was so happy that both me and Martha were getting a happy ending. And I couldn’t agree more; it’s always nice to have a happy ending. She deserves it.”
BD Wong, ‘Mr. Robot’
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“I have to say, post-SVU I feel like I became eligible to be in this category and I didn’t really feel that way before,” Wong says. “I’m happy with that feeling.”
Becky Ann Baker, ‘Girls’
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“I don’t know if I’ll ever get writing like that again in my life,” Baker says. “It’s tragic that it’s over.”
Bill Camp, ‘The Night Of’
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“It’s like, ‘Wow, it seems to be working out that I came back to do this’” Camp says, “Not just because of an Emmy or any other kind of deal, [but] because I’ve enjoyed it since coming back a lot. But also how important it was that I did stop.”
Milo Ventimiglia, ‘This Is Us’
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“It strangely feels like the bar has been set and then the floor fell out from underneath me. And so the only way to go is up,” Ventimiglia says, trying to put into words the surreal allure of being an Emmy first-timer. “I just have to make the work better, and in my mind, I equate the two to making the man I’m playing more real. Experiencing him at such a level that no one could believe that that’s an actor putting on a costume and saying words that he’s been told to say.”
Ron Cephas Jones, ‘This Is Us’
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“It’s rewarding to get to this point and to be able to get this kind of role based on my work right from the audition, where the director and the writer know that this is the guy they want because he’s capturing the role exactly like they wrote it without any other questions: Is he Hollywood? Do we know his name? There was none of that. None of us in the cast had to deal with that.”
Stephen Glover, ‘Atlanta’
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“We really thought it was going to be a show that people wouldn’t get,” Glover tells ET with a laugh. “Like, ‘This is kind of out there, but it’s something I might like.’ But I think it turned out that people actually wanted something like that, something kind of weird. The response up front has been crazy.”