Ayo Edebiri wanted somebody to carry her purse on the 2023 Emmy Awards. After the 28-year-old The Bear star was introduced because the winner of the Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence class, she instantly responded by handing her bag to Carson Daly, who was seated beside her on the occasion.
“I hope he nonetheless has all my stuff. If my stuff is gone after I get again to my seat, I am going to know that Carson Daly took it,” she quipped to ET’s Nischelle Turner of The Voice host. “I feel I actually was like, ‘I am so sorry, are you able to please maintain my stuff, Carson Daly?’ I used to be out of my thoughts. It was a loopy second.”
That particular second continued when Christina Applegate was the one to hand Edebiri her award onstage.
“She’s such a particular performer, anyone I’ve been watching my entire life, such a tremendous lady. I am so in awe of her, her profession, but in addition her journey,” Edebiri praised. “Considered one of my finest mates has MS, so it’s simply so cool to obtain that second from her.”
Throughout her acceptance speech, Edebiri expressed her because of her dad and mom and joked about them not sitting beside her.
“They have been behind me to the suitable. I hope folks do not assume I am a foul baby. I did not make the seating association,” she instructed ET. “They offer you one ticket. I requested for 2. There was a bit kerfuffle. They’ve good seats. They only weren’t subsequent to me as a result of Carson Daly was subsequent to me. I did not make the association. Cannot stress that sufficient.”
On the finish of the day, Edebiri mentioned she’s “fairly floored” by turning into an Emmy winner.
“My identify was in league with loads of actually superb performances and reveals of their remaining season and all that stuff. I am simply actually, actually floored,” she mentioned, earlier than acknowledging the success of The Bear total on the Emmys, calling herself and her co-workers “very, very, very lucky.”
“I feel that is actually all you may say,” she mentioned. “It is bizarre, these items, they make it win or lose, however I like TV. I like watching TV. The reveals and performances that we have been nominated alongside are so good. To have any form of recognition actually, particularly type our friends, is gorgeous and humbling and very nice.”
As she strikes ahead Monday evening after her massive win, Edebiri famous, “I am simply form of letting life occur and making an attempt to be a good individual on the best way. I do not assume this has something to do with me anymore. I can see my mother being like, ‘See, all of the prayers, they work.'”
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. Reside’s Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the ceremony will air dwell Monday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET on Fox, and can be streamed Tuesday, Jan. 16 on Hulu. Preserve checking ETonline.com for full Emmys protection and for the total winners’ checklist.
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