What was it like being part of a show with an arc "bigger than Noah’s”?
Matthew Rhys, who picked up his first
Emmy for his role as a Russian spy on FX’s “
The Americans,” thought back on the series, which said farewell in May after six seasons.
“The dimensions that every character had in that show was tenfold, and I’ll miss the challenge of that,” Rhys said.
But perhaps the role was less challenging than the sheer terror of giving an Emmys acceptance speech. Rhys jokingly compared the experience to a nightmare.
“Everything you’ve dreamed of onstage, playing Hamlet and you don't know the words...you become a babbling, bumbling idiot,” he said.”Nobody ever sees the giant jumbotron flashing red, going stop, stop — it is terrifying.”