TV veteran Sandra Oh — you recognize, the beloved actress from Gray’s Anatomy and Killing Eve — has been nominated for an Emmy 14 occasions however it took slightly recognized Hulu film referred to as Quiz Lady for her to lastly get a much-deserved attagirl by the TV Academy.
Sadly, Oh wasn’t there to obtain her award on the Artistic Arts Emmys Sunday for producing Quiz Woman. However her fellow co-star/producer Awkwafina in addition to the film’s author/producer Jen D’Angelo had been astonished to be taught backstage that Oh has by no means gained the golden woman — till now. They had been straight-up gobsmacked when a reporter informed them.
Nobody had the prospect to examine in with Oh earlier than gathering the ultimate Emmy of the evening. Apparently, Oh is in Canada so she missed how the movie — a couple of game-show-obsessed lady and her estranged sister work collectively to assist cowl their mom’s playing money owed — gained the ultimate prize on evening 2 of the Artistic Arts Emmys.
Oh’s different Emmy noms up to now have been for Killing Eve, SNL, and Gray’s.
Quiz Woman, which additionally stars Will Ferrell, Holland Taylor and Jason Schwartzman, had its world premiere at TIFF final yr. It was picked up by Hulu, which debuted it final November.
“It was such a surreal expertise,” recalled D’Angelo about TIFF after Sunday’s present. “We had been all so proud that the film bought in there and was capable of display screen there, however it was through the strike, so none of us had been capable of go apart from [director] Jessica Yu. We had been so unhappy to overlook out on that. However that’s kind of the story of Quiz Woman. We’ve gone by way of quite a lot of stuff. We shot throughout Covid, we premiered through the strike, and we simply kind of like stored going. We had been the unique comedy that might and it’s simply been so great to have the ability to share it with the world and to have the ability to have nights like tonight to have fun it.”
