Ayo Edebiri
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The previous day, January 14th bear and bottoms Star Ayo Edebiri won her first Emmy Award, while the actress, writer and comedian won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy for Crying Ireland.
“I want to thank my real family, but I don’t know if they have the CW overseas. To everyone in Boston, Barbados, Nigeria, and Ireland, in one form or another,” she told Barker at the Santa Monica Airport. he told the crowd at the hangar. “Thank you very much.”
Three of the four locations Edebiri mentioned were meaningful to the general audience and show attendees that night. Edebiri was born in Boston to a Barbadian mother and a Nigerian father, and both were thanked in speeches and posed for memorable photos with the actress during the busy awards season.
And while Boston has a history of a strong Irish-American community (and Ireland has historical ties to Barbados), it’s unlikely that Edebiri will be able to win that night, or the next night, before the 2023 championship. That’s not why I gave props to this country when I walked the red carpet. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.
“Shout out to my people! Shout out to Derry, shout out to Cork! Shout out to Killarney, shout out to Dublin!” she said entertainment tonight on Monday night.
It’s all part of a running gag that started with a red carpet interview with Letterboxd last March.promoting her comedy movie bottomsthe actress joked that she starred at the award. Banshee of Inisherin as Jenny, a stubborn donkey who is an animal companion to Colin Farrell’s Padrick;
“I lived in Ireland for about four months and my personality has improved a lot,” Edebiri said, joking about her Irish accent. “I was on my hands and knees for four months. It was really painful, but beautiful at the same time.”
The joke was in line with her general comedic approach to her own profile on Letterboxd, a social platform designed to share and discover opinions about movies. This platform also serves as a factory for memes and online girlfriend jokes. In her review, deceasedEdebiri jokingly claimed that he was “the dialect coach for the film,” but only on the term microprocessor.
“I taught everyone how to say the word microprocessor in the funniest way possible, and did a great job,” the comedian wrote.
her jokes from bottoms The carpet eventually went viral, with fans on social media beginning to refer to her as the Princess of Ireland (some people in Ireland ended up giving her an honorary title). . While proceeding with digital release in November last year, bottomsEdebiri mentioned it again, this time on TikTok, calling Ireland her “homeland.”
Now, the gag will continue into the (delayed) 2023 and 2024 awards seasons, with the Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Emmy Award winner repeatedly thanking the public for embracing her. ing.
Users on platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram and TikTok are cheering with excitement as Edebiri has made it through awards season alongside other Irish actors such as: all of us strangers Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal Oppenheimer”with Cillian Murphy Salt Burn”Barry Keoghan. bridgerton star and Irish actress Nicola Coughlan also took a screenshot. bear Performer E.T. In that interview, she gave a shoutout to Derry, writing, “So proud of you our girl,” before tagging Edebiri in her Instagram Story.
like an outlet irish times They also accepted the joke, declaring they were “proud” to call her one of their films, with the Dublin film site congratulating her on her BAFTA Rising Star nomination, as well as calling her “Irish” A fake list of actresses’ best works has been published. “For the record, yes, we know where Edebiri is actually from (Ireland),” they tweeted.
I hope she continues to show pride in her “found” family alongside her real family.