Watching a frazzled Kieran Culkin take home the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series award at the Emmys? Perfection. Culkin had already been winning awards for his work in season 4 of Succession as Roman Roy, but taking home the Emmy for the final season feels different. Especially when his co-star, Sarah Snook, joined him and took home the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award.
An emotional Culkin took to the stage, started to thank everyone, and quipped about being afraid of getting yelled at by Doris Bowman (Emmys host Anthony Anderson’s mother, better known as “Mamma” whenever she’s on shows with him). What was really sweet was watching as Culkin thanked his wife, Jazz Charton.
The two married in 2013 and have two children together, whom Culkin thanked as well. He expressed his gratitude to his “beautiful wife” and went on to thank her “for sharing your life with me and for giving me two amazing kids.” But two clearly isn’t enough for Culkin because whilst on stage, he said that he wants to have a third child. “Jazz, I want more. You said maybe if I win!”
It was, frankly, an adorable speech. Actors either know they’re going to win and are very composed or we get really honest and raw speeches like Culkin’s. Maybe it is because he has often lost at the Emmys for Succession, but to finally see Roman Roy take home the big prize, especially for the final season? It ruled! Better yet, all the Succession wins were great!
Saran Snook joined Culkin in the first-timers club, so to see both Shiv and Roman win was amazing. Snook thanked her daughter, who she was pregnant with during filming, saying that her “biggest thank you” was to her, even if she is “… someone who won’t understand anything that I’m saying at the moment, but I carried her with me in this last season. And really, it was her who carried me.”
She went on to dismiss her talent and joke that it was easy acting while pregnant. “It’s very easy to act when you’re pregnant because you’ve got hormones raging. It was more that the proximity of her life growing inside me gave me the strength to do this and this performance, and I love you so much,” Snook said. “And it’s all for you from here on out. Thank you.”
Some of the best characters on the show!
While I am a Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) girl myself, season 4 really highlighted the work that both Snook and Culkin have put into Shiv and Roman in the show’s four-season run. Roman and Shiv used to be at each other’s throats, furious with each other as the younger siblings, but watching them be there through the death of Logan Roy (Brian Cox), all before chaos ensued by the end? That was truly perfection from my favorite rich, horrible family.
The cast of Succession taking home Emmy awards is no surprise, but to see Culkin and Snook get theirs for the final season is amazing.
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