![]() ![]() Would chatterbox Ted be as perfect and endearing a lead, if we didn't always have his quiet no-nonsense right hand man as ballast. Still, vote splitting leaves a lot of room for this Emmy race to go a number of ways.īrendan Hunt as "Coach Beard" on Ted Lassoġst Emmy nomination* | Episode: "Two Aces" Yes, the show has great writing but it takes terrific actors to really make these kinds of delicate characterizations sing.įor all of these reasons and one more crucial one - it's a very large role on the show so any episode would probably work - Emmy might well go for him. Sometimes the way he punctures and derails a scene into something that you're not quite expecting is just magic as when he finds his own funny proud guy's guy way to tell the team he's benched rather than have it told to them in a sober way in the last scene. The gruff intimidating exterior and pride are beautifully paired with a big heart, making scenes with his niece and new girlfriend and even his coach vibrate with feeling and laughs. He's about to be benched and doesn't want the humiliation. Roy Kent is the oldest player on the team and though he's a legend of the sport, his best days are behind him. Goldstein chose the penultimate season one episode, the perfect choice, as its the culmination of his season arc. ![]() “Brett Goldstein as "Roy Kent" on Ted Lassoġst Emmy nomination | Episode "All Apologies" Just the simple way Clemon-Hopkins delivers the line about not owning a dog makes the scene's punchline when Marcus has already exited the room ("why he don't like dogs?") much funnier than it naturally would have been - even though the actress herself is hilarious.Ĭlemons-Hopkins is even better in his first scene on the phone with Vance's other main employee (and phone acting isn't easy because you have noone to act with, really) wherein she's feigning a friendship with Marcus (they don't have one!) because she needs something desperately. Given how tightly controlled this performance/character is, this is a perfect episode choice because we also get to see Marcus in atypical mode, loosening up and even laughing at himself, when he gets drunk and is called out for a rather obvious hook-up ploy. This tricky assignment is especially evident in two scenes within the episode, one in which Marcus walks in on his mother and her very funny friend who are throwing a party in his house (that he never uses). Note the laughs they themselves generate with perfectly judged eyerolls, internal sighs, and the kind of blunt line delivery that is always subtley saying "I refuse to join your level of crazy" without ever raising the temperature of the room or Marcus's voice. Clemonts-Hopkins doesn't just fulfill this duty, as the right-hand man of legendary comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), but elevates it into its own self-effacing artform. The straight man, in the comedy sense, has to be a steady non-jokey presence for the more outrageous laugh-line characters to bounce off of. So I have to assume their chances are low but what tremendous work they're doing within this specific comic register. Looking over the list of Emmy winners over the years it's rare that the "straight man" - in the comedy sense, not the sexuality sense - wins for a comedy. Only the acting nomination statistics are listed below)Ĭarl Clemons-Hopkins as "Marcus" on Hacks (NOTE: If there is an asterisk by the Emmy nomination it means they have additional Emmy nods in non-acting categories. I've reskimmed each episode or watched again in its entirety, to think this over. So come with me on this real-time (while I'm writing it that is) journey to find out where my imaginary vote lands and who Emmy might choose and why. That's partially because of Emmy's silly voting rules which end up burying their acting fields with one show but partially because even within Ted Lasso, where I assume my vote will go, I love everyone. ![]() The Film Experience Team takes a look at the episode submissions for major Emmy categories.Ĭonfession as lede: I chose this specific actor race when the Team divvied up the categories because I genuinely had no idea who I'd vote for when I heard the nominees. ![]()
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