77th Emmys: Noah Wyle wins first Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series
Noah Wyle accepts the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for ‘The Pitt’ during the show at the 77th Emmy Awards. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Noah Wyle took home his first Emmy Sunday night, as he won outstanding lead actor in a drama series for The Pitt.
Other nominees in the category were Sterling K. Brown (Paradise), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) and Adam Scott (Severance).
“First of all, to my fellow nominees, just having my name included in your company is the honor of a lifetime,” Wyle said in his acceptance speech. “Thank you to everybody at HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television for allowing the conditions to exist for lightning to strike in my life twice. John Wells, thank you for being that lightning.”
He ended his speech by acknowledging shift workers — like those who work in hospitals — by saying, “To anybody who is going on shift tonight, or coming off shift tonight, thank you for being in that job. This is for you.”
Eric Dane and Jensen Ackles star in the new Prime Video series Countdown.
The show, which debuts on Wednesday, follows a secret task force that comes together to investigate the murder of an officer with the Department of Homeland Security.
Ackles leads as LAPD Detective Mark Meachum, while Dane plays his commanding officer, Nathan Blythe. The characters butt heads at times, but they’re ultimately on the same team.
“There’s this beautiful dance that happens between a commanding officer and the guy who is effectively a bit of a maverick and a loose cannon and has problems with superiority,” Ackles said.
Dane is “the one swinging the hammer and I’m the hammer,” Ackles said.
His co-star agreed with his assessment. “That’s a really great analogy,” Dane said. “We butt heads but it doesn’t matter because at the end of the day I get what I want out of him.”
Ackles said working with Dane was both fun and intimidating.
“Right off the bat Eric and I had quick chemistry,” Ackles said. “I just knew it was going to be a lot of fun to be in scenes with him, and it was and it continues to be.”
“I sometimes turn to a bit of a wallflower watching him and forget I have a line because there’s just this quiet reverence that he portrays and that he delivers on set,” Ackles continued. “It’s quite fun to watch. And it’s sometimes a little intimidating to be in scenes with.”
Dane opened up about his ALS diagnosis in an interview that aired on Good Morning America June 16. He told ABC Audio the hardest thing about filming Countdown was the pace of which the show was filmed.
“It’s challenging shooting this show at the pace in which we shoot this show. It’s not a marathon, it is a sprint,” Dane said.
Superman had another super weekend at the box office with a $57.3 million haul in its second week of release.
The James Gunn film, starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, has now made $235 million total domestically and $407 million worldwide.
Jurassic World: Rebirth held steady in the #2 spot with $23.4 million, while the weekend’s new releases I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs came in third and fourth with $13 million and $11 million, respectively.
The weekend’s other new release, Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, landed at #7 with $4.3 million.
Here are the top 10 films at the box office this week:
1. Superman – $57.3 million 2. Jurassic Park: Rebirth – $23.4 million 3. I Know What You Did Last Summer – $13 million 4. Smurfs – $11 million 5. F1: The Movie – $9.6 million 6. How to Train Your Dragon – $5.4 million 7. Eddington – $4.3 million 8. Elio – $2 million 9. Lilo & Stitch – $1.5 million 10. 28 Years Later – $1.3 million
Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney in ‘Twinless.’ (Lionsgate)
Dylan O’Brien plays identical twin brothers in Twinless.
The new film, which arrives in theaters on Friday, was written and directed by James Sweeney, who also co-stars. O’Brien told ABC Audio the idea of playing identical twins wasn’t something he would have been drawn to if it wasn’t for Sweeney’s script.
It was “a concept that I was really emotionally struck by, telling the story of such a unique experience on this earth and a unique loss on this earth I really found compelling,” O’Brien said.
O’Brien knew he had to be a part of Twinless because he felt like “this could be something so special” where he could really “go on the journey with these characters that I felt such a connectivity to in hands that I trusted so much,” referring to Sweeney.
Sweeney himself is not a twin, though he says, “I am still waiting to be running into a forest one day and bump into it.”
The writer-director-actor said he was always fascinated by the idea of having a twin.
“I think it does represent the soulmate ideal of a best friend who wants to do all the things you want to do, can share the mundanities of life together,” Sweeney said. “Now, having done a lot more research, I understand twin relationships can be very complicated. No twins are alike. It’s not a monolithic experience, but I think there is an inherent beauty in being able to share your life with somebody.”
