{"id":677253,"date":"2026-09-07T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677253\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:25:14","slug":"betty-gilpin-takes-dig-at-sam-altman-in-emmys-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677253\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Gilpin Takes Dig at Sam Altman in Emmys Acceptance Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d guest star Betty Gilpin<\/a> accepted her Emmy win for outstanding guest actress in a comedy by reading a poem she had written in jest \u2014 and very much in the unique style of the show. But it was one line that especially got the TV Academy audience at the Peacock Theatre to cheer: \u201cLet\u2019s all lean toward Sam Shepard and less toward Sam Altman<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGilpin won for playing Sarah Westcott Warren, the long-suffering wife of town founder Richard Warren in the \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d flashback episode \u201cOur History.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s her acceptance speech, in poem:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf by some fluke you win, a poem might give it a less boring spin. If you lose, whisper it drunk to your date, Allie Brie, whose toned shoulders we stand on for her work in TV. \/ Thank you, \u2018Widows Bay\u2019 residents, [Katie] Dippold, [Hiro] Murai, to Hamish and Apple, our director Ti [West] \/ To my reps Sean, Jenny, Andrea, Dara and Tony. Is it weird I say love you when we hang up the phony? (Sorry) \/<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRhymings of vulnerability cloak. What we do means so much to me. That part\u2019s not a joke \/ Look, my family has nurses, a priest and a teacher. I\u2019m a spray-tanned, narcissistic society leecher. \/ But I want to thank all of the actors I\u2019ve met \u2014 old ladies in dressing rooms, hot guys on sets. What a privilege to spend this life laughing at crafty, watching Shakespeare in theaters, half full and drafty. \/ <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur business is stupid, but actors are the bomb. From Martindale to Milioti, my dad and my mom, to be cringe and elitist, which you\u2019re free to find fault in. Let\u2019s all lean toward Sam Shepard and less toward Sam Altman. \/<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThank you, Cosmo. My family, my daughters, friends \u2014 too many to name \u2014 my brothers Sam, Harry and my long dead dog Babe. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhere did the idea for the poem come from? Gilpin credited her episodic co-star Hamish Linklater, who also earned a guest actor in a comedy Emmy nomination for playing Richard Warren.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was on the same flight over as my co-nominee Hamish Linklater, and he came over to my row and was like, \u2018Have you written a speech?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh no, no, no! I\u2019m not going to win,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Well, you need to do that because it\u2019s a scientific possibility, and don\u2019t be stupid. Just prepare something.\u2019 So he scared the shit out of me, and I wrote a quick manic poem, as you know, women have done for centuries. And I love my dog Babe. I named my first daughter after him. I\u2019m almost ready for a dog, decade away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d ended Night 2 of the 78th Emmys<\/a> with eight wins \u2014 the most of any program so far. Gilpin called the recognition \u201cincredible.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe episode that Hamish and I did, it\u2019s like we did this strange little period indie movie at the end of the actual filming of contemporary \u2018Widow\u2019s Bay.\u2019 So it felt like, honestly an island within an island. The crew and writers had filmed all nine episodes before us, and so to encounter all these people who were clearly brilliant and tired and had just taken a big risk, and then to watch that risk pay off immensely \u2014 it\u2019s just so satisfying. A point for brilliant, weird, creative people, I\u2019d say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her episode, Sarah appears to perish as she attempts to leave the island. Is there any chance she might return in another flashback? \u201cI feel like by her genius demented \u2018Widow\u2019s Bay\u2019 lore math, it doesn\u2019t make sense for her to come back,\u201d Gilpin said. \u201cBut like, come on, just find it so I can come back. I would love to do that. I loved working on the show so much. Katie Dippold\u2019s brain and work and the fact that Apple made her show a reality gives me renewed faith in our industry. Honestly, something so original and niche and strange and human having success in the mainstream \u2014 it gives me hope, honestly, that we\u2019re not totally lost in our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d guest star Betty Gilpin accepted her Emmy win for outstanding guest actress in a comedy by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[104488,434,40257,18,7612,117,19,17,308],"class_list":["post-677253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-betty-gilpin","tag-celebrities","tag-creative-arts-emmys","tag-eire","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sam-altman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117231165449317060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}