Euphoria's Colman Domingo Reacts to His First-Ever Emmy Win

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Colman Domingo is feeling euphoric aft winning his archetypal Emmy Award

The histrion took location the 2022 Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor successful a Drama Series connected Sept. 4 for his portrayal of Ali connected Euphoria. Naturally, helium was acceptable to observe with "lots of champagne," arsenic helium told E! News' Daily Pop astatine the grant show. 

"Come on, I request champagne with this outfit, right?" Colman joked earlier getting existent astir however overmuch the grant means to him. "It feels similar I'm connected a cloud, to beryllium honest. It feels similar axenic heaven. It's lovely, each of the eyes successful the room, the radical that you respect and you love, it's truly amazing."

Colman went connected to wage tribute to a precise important person who wasn't in the country astatine the Creative Arts Emmys. "My ma is nary longer with us, but my ma gave maine a large imagination," he shared. "She helped maine imagine that I could beryllium successful places similar this."

Backstage, the histrion continued to praise his parents arsenic helium opened up astir representing Afro-Latino actors with the Emmy win. As Colman said of his father's broadside of the household per Deadline, "They're from Belize and Guatemala and each implicit Central America and I consciousness precise proud. I'm definite they're screaming successful the streets for me, they're precise arrogant of maine being a portion of this and representing not lone Afro-Latinos, but besides representing humble radical for West Philadelphia arsenic well. You know, moving people parents and step-fathers and mothers, truthful I deliberation I correspond truthful galore of them truthful it feels really, truly good."

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Colman besides gave Euphoria fans an thought of what to expect connected the HBO show's highly-anticipated 3rd season, revealing that helium and creator Sam Levinson precocious had "some truly heavy conversations." 

"Here he's talking astir the arcs of each the characters and what helium wants to bash to grow that, to really re-examine astatine times," Colman said. "It's an organism and helium wants it to support shifting it successful galore ways and I deliberation he's going to instrumentality immoderate truly large swings really with play three."

He added that he sees Sam arsenic idiosyncratic who "wants to smash" immoderate expectations antecedently acceptable by his enactment "because helium genuinely is simply a consummate artist and helium wants to marque definite he's telling immoderate truly compelling storytelling."

Colman continued, "And conscionable due to the fact that we had immoderate successes earlier with this season, helium said, 'Let's not trust connected that. Let's determination forward. I'm going to spell deeper with these characters. I'm going to truly peel distant the layers of them and conscionable get to the quality heart.'"

Hear from further Creative Arts Emmy winners successful the supra Daily Pop interview.

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards air Saturday, Sept. 10, astatine 8 p.m. connected FXX.

Watch Daily Pop weekdays astatine 11 a.m., lone connected E!.

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