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“Thank you to the voters in the TV academy, thank you mom and dad, you nurtured what I had in me. Dennis Lehane, Taron Egerton, your talent can move boulders. If I look tall it’s cause I’m standing on both of their shoulders,” rapped out Paul Walter Hauser beginning one of the vital uncommon Emmy acceptance speeches of the evening for Black Bird.
He’s taking home the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie for his tremendous creepy nice nuanced efficiency as serial killer Larry Hall on the Apple TV+ present. Also unconventional, Hauser was crunching on one thing in his seat after they referred to as his identify and nonetheless chewing when he took the stage.
It was his first Emmy nom and win for Hauser, who nabbed a Golden Globe for the function final week, and a SAG nomination in addition to the 2023 Critics Choice Award.
Hall is a doughy, mutton-chopped convicted serial killer and rapist accused of murdering 14 ladies. In the six-part sequence, prosecutors provide Taron Egerton’s James Keane – a drug seller serving ten years — a commuted sentence if he’s in a position befriend Hall and extract a confession. Bestselling creator Lehane primarily based the skein on Keane’s autobiographical novel In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain.
Hauser’s had an excellent run enjoying real-life troubled characters, acclaimed for a breakout function in Clint Eastwood’s 2019 movie Richard Jewell, taking the Hollywood Critics Association Game Changer Award and the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review.
In I, Tonya (2017) he performed Shawn Eckardt, a bumbling bodyguard who helped Tonya Harding kneecap her rival Nancy Kerrigan on the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Other credit embrace Apple TV+’s Afterparty, SXSW-premiering darkish comedy Americana, and Apple Original Films upcoming heist pic The Instigators directed by Doug Liman with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
