Call it “Feud: For Real.” Or maybe “This Is a Lot of Us.”
Multiple performers from the same casts are going head-to-head in a dozen Emmy categories this year, meaning that come Sept. 17, a show that’s celebrating a performer’s win might simultaneously be consoling someone heading home empty-handed.
Newcomer “This Is Us” is carrying some of that baggage, with both Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia up for actor in a drama series and Denis O’Hare and Brian Tyree Henry up for guest actor in the same.
Among supporting actresses, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has Samira Wiley and Ann Dowd vying in the drama category, while “Saturday Night Live” has three players in the comedy-series running: Vanessa Bayer, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. On the list for limited series or movie, “Big Little Lies” and “Feud: Bette and Joan” have supporters Laura Dern versus Shailene Woodley and Judy Davis versus Jackie Hoffman, respectively.
“Feud” continued to live up to its name in the supporting actor arena, where Alfred Molina and Stanley Tucci are pitted among the limited series or movie folks, and for actress, where Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon both made the list.