This may be anEmmysfirst.
During the 2019 Emmy Awards,Phoebe Waller-Bridgetook home three awards for her series,Fleabag— best writing for a comedy series,best actress in a comedy seriesandbest comedy seriesforFleabag— and she was quick to put one of the golden statuettes to (interesting) use.
“I’ve got some fruit salad right here,” he says as they sit back-to-back.
But before she can satisfy her “peckish” cravings, Rodriguez tells her she must “use your Emmy to grab your fruit.”
Waller-Bridge, 34, is happy to oblige and proceeds to lower her award into the bowl of fruit.
“Do you want some?” she asks as she offers a piece of honeydew melon to Rodriguez, who enthusiastically eats the fruit from Waller-Bridge’s Emmy.
Fleabag,which ended its second and final season in April, follows the sexual misadventures of a woman known only as Fleabag, originally based on Waller-Bridge’s 2013 one-woman stage play of the same name.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge.Kevin Winter/Getty
The best actress win for Waller-Bridge was particularly significant as she beat outVeep‘sJulia Louis-Dreyfus, who was nominated for her record 19th acting Emmy.
“No! Oh my God, no!” the surprised star said on stage after accepting her Emmy. “Thank you. I find acting really hard and really painful. But it’s all about this. Thank you to be nominated with these unbelievable actresses who I have just looked up to and watched and laughed at with for so many years. It means so much, I mean that in a nice way. And this means a huge amount to me.”
Waller-Bridge was also nominated as the showrunner, writer and producer for BBC America’sKilling Evein the best drama series category, but lost out toGame of Thrones.
Waller-Bridge’s appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!will air Monday at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
source: people.com
