Paul Walter Hauser has been feeling the awards present love for his chilling and unforgettable efficiency within the crime drama Blackbird. That momentum carried via on Monday, when he took house the Emmy for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film.
Hauser gained the award whereas snacking, after which delivered his speech within the type of rhyming verse, and usually introduced a wild, unpredictable vitality to the proceedings.
Talking with the press pool backstage, Hauser addressed the bizarre speech and defined, “I had the good fortune of getting to take home a trophy for this performance at the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes. And I had kind of done the regular thank you speeches. So I was like, ‘I’m just gonna have fun.'”
“I love writing lyrics, I love being silly and I actually do rap music under the name Signet Ringer. It’s on Youtube and Spotify and Apple Music,” Hauser added. “There’s an EP with like six tracks of me actually rapping, because I enjoy doing that.”
Hauser additionally addressed his shout-out to his Blackbird co-star, Ray Liotta, who died unexpectedly in Could 2022 at age 67.
“I only got to work with him one day on set. We did a tiny little thing together, but… for somebody like me — who loves movies, who really watches a lot of movies, and that was their entry into the business. I didn’t go to acting school. I didn’t have family in the industry. I just had a Blockbuster card. You know what I mean? And Ray Liotta, if you look at Something Wild and Goodfellas and Field of Dreams and Copland and Narc, he’s so scary in the movie Narc. I just think he was one of our great actors,” Hauser shared. “I put him up there with like the Chris Coopers and stuff,, where every time they show up, I’m happy to see them in a story.”
“So I love shouting him out for his talent, but he was also super kind to me,” Hauser added. “I think he’s at a much better party right now.”
After profitable his massive award, Hauser additionally stopped to speak with ET’s Nischelle Turner backstage, and revealed what it was he was consuming when his title was introduced. Because it seems, it was dried mangos given to him by his managers, as one thing of an inside joke.
“[They] gave me a whole bag of mangos before the show started, I was like, ‘Dude, the moment the camera’s on me I’m going to start eating those,'” Hauser stated with amusing, revealing that the entire second “was by design.”
“That’s a shout out to them,” he added. “Whether I won or not, they got a shout out.”
The seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards, initially set to happen final September, was postponed because of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Hosted by Anthony Anderson at L.A. Dwell’s Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the ceremony aired dwell Monday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET on Fox, and will probably be streamed Tuesday, Jan. 16 on Hulu. Maintain checking ETonline.com for full Emmys protection and for the total winners’ record.
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