But it was one line that especially got the TV Academy audience at the Peacock Theatre to cheer: “Let’s all lean toward Sam Shepard and less toward Sam Altman.” Gilpin won for playing Sarah Westcott Warren, the long-suffering wife of town founder Richard Warren in the “Widow’s Bay” flashback episode “Our History.” “If by some fluke you win, a poem might give it a less boring spin. If you lose, whisper it drunk to your date, Allie Brie, whose toned shoulders we stand on for her work in TV. / Thank you, ‘Widows Bay’ residents, [Katie] Dippold, [Hiro] Murai, to Hamish and Apple, our director Ti [West] / To my reps Sean, Jenny, Andrea, Dara and Tony. Is it weird I say love you when we hang up the phony? (Sorry) / “Rhymings of vulnerability cloak.
What we do means so much to me. That part’s not a joke / Look, my family has nurses, a priest and a teacher. I’m a spray-tanned, narcissistic society leecher. / But I want to thank all of the actors I’ve met — old ladies in dressing rooms, hot guys on sets.
What a privilege to spend this life laughing at crafty, watching Shakespeare in theaters, half full and drafty. / “Our business is stupid, but actors are the bomb. From Martindale to Milioti, my dad and my mom, to be cringe and elitist, which you’re free to find fault in. Let’s all lean toward Sam Shepard and less toward Sam Altman. / “Thank you, Cosmo.
My family, my daughters, friends — too many to name — my brothers Sam, Harry and my long dead dog Babe. Thank you.” Where did the idea for the poem come from? Gilpin credited her episodic co-star Hamish Linklater, who also earned a guest actor in a comedy Emmy nomination for playing Richard Warren.
I’m not going to win,’” she said. Just prepare something.’ So he scared the shit out of me, and I wrote a quick manic poem, as you know, women have done for centuries. I named my first daughter after him.
I’m almost ready for a dog, decade away.” “Widow’s Bay” ended Night 2 of the 78th Emmys with eight wins — the most of any program so far. Gilpin called the recognition “incredible.” “The episode that Hamish and I did, it’s like we did this strange little period indie movie at the end of the actual filming of contemporary ‘Widow’s Bay.’ So it felt like, honestly an island within an island. The crew and writers had filmed all nine episodes before us, and so to encounter all these people who were clearly brilliant and tired and had just taken a big risk, and then to watch that risk pay off immensely — it’s just so satisfying.
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