Richard Gadd CelebratesBaby ReindeerHaving 'No Set Formula' as Show Takes Home Emmy: 'Explore the Uncomfortable'

Mar. 15, 2025

Richard Gadd.Photo:Leon Bennett/WireImage

Leon Bennett/WireImage

After taking the stage, creator and star Richard Gadd thanked the show’s cast and crew before saying, “I know the industry is in a slump right now, and I know I might force or put pressure on networks and stuff to tighten the purse strings and broaden the slate but I believe that no slump is ever broken without a willingness to take risks.”

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“I think nobody thought that it would be the stratospheric, Emmy-nominated success that it became. And it was overnight,” Gadd toldThe Hollywood Reporter.

This year’s category was stacked with talent as the other nominees includedFargo,Lessons in Chemistry,RipleyandTrue Detective: Night Country.

Ripley,based onPatricia Highsmith’s 1955 novelThe Talented Mr. Ripley,starsAndrew Scottas con-man Tom Ripley. The story had previously been told in the 1999 movieThe Talented Mr. RipleystarringMatt DamonandJude Law, so Scott, 47, wanted to put a new twist on the tale.

Andrew Scott in ‘Ripley’.Lorenzo Sisti/NETFLIX

Lorenzo Sisti/NETFLIX

“People have a lot of preconceptions about Tom Ripley,” Scott toldNetflix’s Tudum. “So it’s my job, I suppose in some ways, to ignore all that and try to create our own particular version of it.”

Scott did exactly that: the Irish actor’s portrayal earned him an Emmy nomination in the outstanding actor in a limited series or a movie category.

Season 5 ofFargostarredJuno Temple,Jon Hamm,Joe KeeryandLamorne Morrisand marked the first installment to be unrelated to past seasons or the 1996 film that inspired the series.

Jon Hamm in ‘Fargo’ Season 5.Michelle Faye/FX

Michelle Faye/FX

Morris’s character Deputy Witt Farr shockingly died in the season finale after trying to save Dot (Temple) from her ex-husband (Hamm). Morris, 41, toldEntertainment Weeklythat he hoped viewers “cry a lot” at the final episode.

“The craziest things could happen to the best people in the smallest of towns,” Morris said of the show, which takes place in small town North Dakota. “That’s how these stories are made: they spawn from somewhere. And a lot of times it’s what happens to good people.”

Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country’.Michele K. Short/HBO

Michele K. Short/HBO

“I’ve really genuinely been here for the switch,” 61-year-old Foster, who picked up an acting nod forNight Country, toldEWof the pivot. “As a kid, I just didn’t think I was gonna be able to be a director because I never saw another female face. And now, the last five movies I’ve made, it’s all been women. It’s a big shift for me and it’s really exciting to have that leadership style, and especially as an answer to the next installment ofTrue Detective.”

True Detectivehas been picked up for a fifth season, with Lopez running the show again.

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