🎧 So You’ve Been Nominated For An Emmy. Now What?
Inside the maelstrom with 'Lady in the Lake' star Moses Ingram and The Ankler's own Rob Long
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Hi everyone, and greetings from an undisclosed Southern beach. I’m taking some time away this week, so this will be your only dispatch from me until Monday, July 29.
Before I took off, I sat down to hash over the Emmy nominations with someone who knows what it’s like to be inside the awards season maelstrom. Rob Long, host of the Ankler podcast Martini Shot, got his start in television as a writer on the Emmy juggernaut Cheers. He told me about what happens when your show is an awards success: You throw a party, you rent a limo — and the studio’s seemingly limitless promotion budget suddenly becomes visible to you.
As you’ll know if you listen to Rob’s podcast, which is full of hard-won (and hilarious) wisdom about being both up and down in Hollywood, it’s never quite that simple. In the episode we talk about some of the highlights from this year’s nominees, why it really is an honor just to be nominated (but not necessarily to lose), who might get the biggest career bump from this year’s nominations and why in this time of Hollywood uncertainty, awards might just mean more than ever.
In the second half of the episode, I talk to another person who knows exactly what it means when Emmy comes knocking on your door. Moses Ingram was fresh out of Yale Drama School when she landed her breakout role on The Queen’s Gambit, and had no idea what to expect when she earned a best supporting actress Emmy nomination back in 2020. What’s come since has been a string of high-profile roles — and now a star turn in Apple TV+’s Lady in the Lake, in which stars opposite Natalie Portman.
A Baltimore native, Ingram approached Lady in the Lake as a kind of homecoming, stepping into the recreated world of 1960s Baltimore. “It’s rare to be able to go home and make something so beautiful,” she says. “I just didn’t grow up in that version of Baltimore. So seeing it so beautifully dressed in the way that it used to be was really magical for me.”
Hear more from Ingram on this week’s episode of the Prestige Junkie podcast, and I’ll see you back here soon.