Jeremy Allen White’s Emmy Award Speech in Full (Including What Was Bleeped Out)
While it may not have been The Bear’s night in the main comedy category at the 2024 Emmys – Hacks clinched that one – the stressy kitchen-based drama still got its dues at last night’s ceremony.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays cousin Richie, took home outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series, and Liza Colon-Zayas, who plays Tina, won outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.
What's more, its lead star, Jeremy Allen White, took home the outstanding lead actor in a comedy series gong for his performance of chef Carmy for a second year in a row.
In his Emmy academy-allocated one-minute speech, the emotional star praised his cast members, saying he loved them “so dearly” and that he wanted them to be “in each other’s lives forever” – causing his co-star Ayo Edebiri’s bottom lip to tremble in the audience – and stressed the show’s important message that “a change is possible, if you are able to reach out, you are never really truly actually alone.”
White fell foul of the censors, however, with a few seconds of his speech being bleeped out, as he apparently said in exclamation: “Jesus Christ!” – Richard Gadd, creator of Baby Reindeer also had the same expression cut from his speech too, which all feels rather puritanical.
Anyway, with the censoring still in place, here’s White’s 2024 Emmy Award-winning speech in full:
Jeremy Allen White wins Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for #TheBearFX at the 2024 #Emmys pic.twitter.com/38i6VC6ZUs
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 16, 2024
“Thank you so much - my heart is beating out of its chest – thank you, thank you to the academy and my fellow nominees, I’m so honoured to be in your company. Chris [Storer, The Bear’s creator] and Jo [Calo, co-showrunner], thank you for choosing me, I am so, so lucky, I’m so grateful, thank you.
“My beautiful cast, I love you forever, I love to work with you, I want us to be in each other’s lives forever, I love you so dearly…Jesus Christ, okay [bleeped out], this show has changed my life, it has instilled a faith that change is possible, if you are able to reach out you are never really truly actually alone. I thank this show, my parents, I love you, Annabel, my sister, you’re here, I love you so much, thank you for coming with me tonight, Ezer and Louie [Delores, his children] I love you so, so much, you are my heart, thank you everybody.”
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