Ayo Edebiri won her first Golden Globe! She won for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy at the 81st Golden Globes on Sunday.
Accepting the award for her role in “The Bear,” she seemed shocked initially during her speech but quickly embraced her deadpan humour. She thanked her castmates (Jeremy Allen White also won Best Actor in a Comedy Series minutes before), her family, and specifically appreciated the executive assistants of Hollywood for their role in making things happen.
In her own words, she said:
“There’s so many people who I probably forgot to thank — oh my, God! Oh my God! All of my agent and managers’ assistants! The people who answer my emails!” exclaimed Edebiri onstage to a round of applause and laughter. “Y’all are real ones! Thank you for answering my crazy, crazy emails.”
“[The success is] almost this thing that feels like your life is being reframed, like there’s something different between your lived experience and how people are perceiving you or something,” she said. “I can clock in my head that I’m going to award shows that I’ve never gone to before, or I’m getting photos taken of me where I’m all dolled up, and that hasn’t happened before. It’s exciting, but it’s also somehow the least-interesting part. The best part of it all is that I get to work on a show that I love with people who I think are so cool and so smart.”
Here’s her full acceptance speech:
Ayo Edebiri’s acceptance speech for her first Golden Globe win.
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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 8, 2024
