Fleabagis the winner!
The Amazon comedy won the best television series in a musical or comedy award at the 2020Golden Globeson Sunday evening, beating out fellow nomineesThe Politician,Barry,The Kominsky MethodandThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
This is the first series nomination at the Globes forFleabag. Written and starringPhoebe Waller-Bridge, it follows the sexual and emotional misadventures of a woman known only as Fleabag, originally based on Waller-Bridge’s 2013 one-woman stage play of the same name.
She and the rest of the cast — aside fromOlivia Colmanwho remained at the table — took the stage to accept the coveted award, thanking the usual suspects … and someone very special to the main character.
Fleabag.Steve Schofield/Amazon Studios
She continued, “Thank you so much for HFPA again, thank you, this is literally the gang that made it. I want to say a huge, huge thank you to everyone for supporting us so much. We all put so much heart and so much love into this show and it’s a bit gross, but we all became best friends. Which is ironic, because the show is about such a lonely lady.”
The actress went on to thank Amazon and BBC for picking up the series and “giving so much space to create something we really, really wanted to create and to say the things no one else would let us say or do.”
It was certainly a breakout year for the two-season Amazon/BBC series, as both Waller-Bridge and her costar Andrew Scott also received nominations.
Earlier in the night, Waller-Bridge took home herfirst Golden Globefor best actress in a comedy or musical television series.
“This is really heavy and cool,” she said then. “This really comes down to Andrew Scott really, ’cause that man. There was a lot of talk about the chemistry in the show, but he can have chemistry with a pebble. I love being his pebble.”
Waller-Bridge is already coming off a hot streak, as shetook home the award for best writing for a comedy series and best actressin September at the Emmys.
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The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony is airing live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 5.
source: people.com
