LAMORNE WON AN EMMY!
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Well, well, well, well, Lamorne Morris, this is a very special episode of the loft meeting because you are no longer just

- Lamorne Morris, you are Emmy winning. - That's right. - Lamorne Morris. - Where my sunglasses at? Hold on. - Come on, put them on. - Yes. - Big time is all, let's go. - You love me. You really, really love me. - I honestly, Lamorne. - Okay.

I have so many questions. I just saw you last week and I was there and got to talk to you about it and give you a hug. Immediately cried. Held your Emmy. It's real. 100% real. Heavy, by the way. I had no idea. Did it shock you when they handed it to you and you're like, this has got some weight. I was not prepared. Yeah. I just assumed it would be a little bit more hollow. Yeah. This thing is solid.

This thing is solid. It's hefty and real. It's got these sharp points on the end. I remember calling you when you got nominated and I was sobbing because I was like, this is so huge. This is massive and overdue and so earned. Real talk was like on a scale of one to 10, what did you think your chances were for actually winning? Very low.

Very, very low. Just because, you know, Robert Downey Jr., I just thought he's so, he's one of my favorite actors of all time. He's definitely in my top five. So, like, I have a poster of this man in my house, a framed picture of him from Tropic Thunder. Because I think that's the greatest comedic performance of all time, if not one of them, but...

So I thought like, oh yeah, and he's so great in The Sympathizer. So I was like, oh, Robert Downey Jr. or Jonathan Bailey, I thought might maybe, you know, fellow travelers. I was like, you know, it was hard for me to imagine a world in which I would win in that category because everybody's so great. But, you know, I did and I'm not sorry about it. But I'm still in shock because...

I mean, I guess that's how everyone feels when they win. Unless you're on the bear, you know, I think you just, the bear, they just clean up. You know what I mean? The bear, there were certain shows. You're just like, just give it to them. Why are we all here? Yeah. Yeah. What's happening? We all, it's appointment television. We get it. But, but, you know, I could imagine everyone has that feeling. Everyone has that, especially if there is any level of humility in you, you know, you're looking at your competition, like, Hey,

The goal was the nomination. I already won. So since I got nominated, I'm a, that's it. You know what I mean? I'm forever going to be Emmy nominated actor, you know, which is great. But Emmy winner is a little different. Different ballgame. It's a little different. Does it feel different? Like, do you feel different now as an actor in this town? Slightly. Slightly. I just don't want it to change my approach. Yeah.

to how I've been going about my business. You know what I mean? Hopefully it just means the opportunities come easier.

quicker you know what I mean um and so then then I'll have more career freedom where I can choose and pick and really carve out and sculpt the the the way I want to go um the power of no right when you get more opportunities you get to exercise the power of no and curate your path a little bit more but you can't do that if you got only one opportunity coming at you you got to say yes yeah one gig comes a year you got to do it that's right um

And so, yeah, that's the only way it feels different, you know, is I can, you know, I can tell by press, you know, all the interviews. I'm also simultaneously doing press for my movie that comes out soon called Saturday Night. And so there's a lot of talk around it. So I'm about the Emmy. When we do these screenings and stuff, they'll introduce the cast and they'll say an Emmy winner, Lamorne Morris. And I'm like, that feels so weird.

It's wild though, because here's the thing. It's a movie that you're in about a TV show. And you just won an Emmy for a TV show. It's those weird little layers of things. It lends itself. It's wild. Yeah. So far it hasn't really registered. I think once the press slows down and

You know, and I get a chance to just be and exist and go do regular stuff again in a way where it's like, oh, I have a week off. I have a week with nothing on the schedule, like a full seven days. Oh, what are we going to do, Lily? I don't know. Go to the park. We got our we don't doesn't matter what we do. We can go do whatever we want. Then I'll start to feel it a little bit more when I have that time to sit there and breathe. But right now it's just work, work, work, work, work.

When I saw you at your place last week, you said something to me that's really stuck with me. You said, this kind of feels like this is for a new girl. What did that mean? What was that? Well, I like to believe that we busted our asses on that show. And we never got the, besides season one where Max and Zoe were both nominated. But besides that,

The show itself never got nominated, which was crazy to me because till this day, the fans still regard it as one of the best comedies they've seen. And I'm talking now, we're still doing really well on streamers and we've been off the air for a long time. And people consider this a new show. To a lot of folks, it's a very new show. And to think, you know, when you look back at

when you look back at all the the work we put in you know i felt like this is a part of this had something to do with the fans of new girl like any of the any of the emmy voters that may have seen my work on the show were probably like oh yeah and especially because this character went far from fargo is a complete departure from anything anyone's ever seen me do

Watching Wit versus Winston, two completely different characters with different sets of beliefs, all that. They go about things in a completely opposite way. And I feel like that resonated with voters. Yeah, it's a body of work then, right? They get to look at a body of work and...

New Girl was such a brilliantly written show and gave so many opportunities to really show character work because we got to do it for so long that yes, then all of a sudden you come out and then crush it on a drama. Then all of a sudden people go like, wow, that's range in an actor. But that's because they have the bookend on the other side.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, and New Girl came out in such a weird time because it was the ending kind of of Modern Family, which was like an award show sweetheart. And it was also the introduction of letting these kind of like dramedies enter into the comedy category. So all of a sudden we were up against girls and Orange is the New Black.

which had a different kind of performance. And so New Girl all of a sudden couldn't, you know, there was no space for us in those categories anymore. The classic sitcom kind of got pushed out. And yeah, we were doing real work and great work and it kind of just, it never made it into like that awards circuit anymore.

And it was, I mean, the level of text and love I feel like from like the New Girl cast writers, a whole new chain started, text thread chain started. - Yeah. - Right? After we all saw you win and everyone was real emotional. Like I know, who called you? I feel like a bunch of people all of a sudden had to call you immediately. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It was hard immediately 'cause I still haven't got, this is crazy, I still haven't returned all the text messages yet. - Sure.

There were, I thought were like 600 something text messages. Then I turned my other phone on and there were like maybe like 700. Get out. I was like, damn. And so I spent days going through it and texting people back and copying and pasting. Because it's like the same, like I can't possibly...

have a long conversation about it, you know, and some people understood. Some people were like, don't even respond. I just want to say congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for that. Cause it's a lot of messages and, and I don't want anybody to feel like I didn't like I'm intentionally like just ignoring. I'm not, I just haven't gotten to them all yet. And they were all sent over the course of two weeks to,

You know, they're still coming in. And and I, Pat, I owe you a call. I'm calling you soon. I feel like you had that moment even in your speech. Yeah. Did you write a speech out? Did you write something down before you went up?

No. I mean, I like improvising, and I like being more in the moment. However, I didn't think I was going to win. So I was like, why would I go up there and write some sort of speech about following your dreams and doing all this, you know, make sure to vote and do, I don't know, whatever people talk about in their speeches. I was like, I'm not that person, and I'm not going to win. So, yeah.

there's no need to spend all my energy like working on this speech. And to be quite honest with you, like I said, I was doing press. I was filming. I didn't have time. I didn't have time to like sit back. I was traveling a lot back and forth, Toronto, New York, Chicago. Like it was all over the place. So I was like, man, when do I, when I'm on the plane, I'm trying to like think of stuff. And the only thing I could think of was just don't forget anybody's name. Don't forget the names that you're supposed to, you know, remember. And then I ended up forgetting that. Yeah.

Well, it's a lot of people, right? When you actually up there and you have this opportunity on the biggest stage you've ever stood on globally. Yeah. All of a sudden, it's a lot of people that helped get you there. Yeah. Right. That you want to be able to recognize and shine a light on.

I'm sure. I mean, I don't know, but I'm sure. No, I mean, listen, no one gets to these places alone. And so, I mean, there's an entire... I wanted to thank every director I've ever worked with. You know what I mean? I wanted to thank all the actors that I've ever... Like you guys. I literally was going to go up there and start thanking the New Girl cast and do it like a whole bit. But I was like, then I'll alienate my Fargo cast. I was like, wait...

Wait, weren't you in the audience? Didn't you tell me this, that you were actually preparing to do a bit, which is why you actually got thrown when they said your name? Yeah, I was, my plan, you know, everyone I talked to, including Max, Max was like, just work on your loser face. And somebody else told me that too. Maybe it was Sean Clifford from Fleabag. I forget who.

So multiple people told me that, though. Work on your loser face. OK. So so I was working on that and my loser face wasn't going to be like, oh, that's exciting. That's happy. Like, oh, no, my loser face was I'm going to curse out the cameraman. Like, I'm going to act like I'm going to act like this is such a travesty. I'm not going to Kanye it and run on stage, but I will be like, you know, like grabbing the lens and I was going to like do that.

And white when I was about to put my hand up and be like, they called my name and I just went, whoa. I saw you retract into yourself. Yes. You just went. Because it hit me. It hit. I still think about that and I get a little emotional. I'm like, that moment when she said my name, I just was like, what? You know, my mom was there. It was such a, it was, it was a perfect moment.

A perfect evening. It was a pretty damn good evening. I can't imagine walking around those parties afterwards holding the Emmy. I mean, this is an industry, right, where we're basically just hoping to be picked all the time. Please, we really want this role. We really want this opportunity. Please, we're going to try our hardest. Please pick us. I mean, that's just the truth. It's the underbelly of so much of it, right? For so long, right? And here you have...

you know, so many wonderful, influential people in this town being like, man, you just did the best job. And you get to walk around and everybody goes like, yeah, you did. You did an incredible job. And you get to sit in that moment for, it's just, it's, I can't imagine that feeling. It's, well, you will. And it's, and it,

I'll live vicariously. So many things. You know me. I'm a homebody. So many things I live vicariously through you. This one was a really, really cool one. It's so funny. I was so proud of you for one, not only getting nominated, but how you handled that nomination, how you spoke on it. And I know it was so genuine that you just appreciated being seen for this really challenging role. And I did not have my TV on.

Things were a little chaotic at my house that night. I did not have my TV on and I was thinking about you and I sent you a text, right? That just said, you know, I know I love you and I'm so proud of you and I'm so inspired by you and I'm just so happy for you. And I think it was, I don't know, whatever the timestamp on it was like 632 or something, which is like when you were on stage winning, right?

Yeah. And then I sent that text to you. And about 10 seconds later, I honest to God, I should screen grab it. I honestly, I probably got 60 texts from like old hairdressers. I've used makeup artists. I've used anybody that had my number that like loves the show. New girl and loves you. We're texting me like I was your mom, you know, being like, Oh my God.

And then I dropped my phone, started crying. And I was like, I had no idea. It was so powerful for all of us that, you know, love you so deeply and have championed like you for so long. And to see everybody recognize it. It was beautiful, man. It was a beautiful for everybody. It's a crazy thing to see how that when that happens, everybody got such a huge lift that night.

Yeah. From you winning. Like even talking to your mom. She was in tears. My mom was in tears, you know. She... This is... I mean, this is as important to her as it is to me, you know, because...

You know, I am, you know, my mom's kids are her prizes. And then when they are happy and, you know, she's happy when they're successful, she feels successful. And so, you know, it's like it's like she truly feels what I feel at times. You know what I mean? Even when I'm like going through it, like emotionally or physically or health wise, whatever it is, it could be nothing.

Like it could literally be like nothing. My mom is like emotional about it. She's like trying to, you know, so this, a victory like this is, it's pretty cool for her. It's cool for me, but it's, it's cool for her as well. And, and for the whole family, you know, it's exciting. Definitely exciting. I'll tell you, I walked into, go back to one of your earlier points. I, I, when you leave there, they give you this massive box before you leave. You know, it's like, Hey, do you want to put your Emmy in this big box? Yeah.

And I'm like, this is the big black box with like cushions on the inside and it's like a case with a lock on it, whatever. And I was like, I'm not about to walk around with a massive, now I gotta use two hands to carry around this box all day at these parties. I was like, no, I'm gonna keep this trophy, man. And it worked out because one of the after parties was at, was Taika Waititi and Rita Ora were throwing a party, right? Now, I did not have an invite to this house party gathering. So I was just like,

you know but i want to go i'm gonna you know i'm gonna i'm gonna check it out see what's happening but i didn't have an invite and i had five people with me like all my friends met up with me after the emmys and we like you know piled in the suv and we're like we we mobbing out so we went to a couple parties and then we ended up someone gave me the address to tyka's place

And we get there, the security asked the driver, he's like, "What do you have in there?" And he's like, "Lamorne Morris." And he goes back and looks at a little clipboard and comes back and was like, "Sorry, not on the list." He's like, "If you could pull a U-turn, you can head back out towards sunset." Like pretty much telling him how to leave. And I was like, "Hold on, hold on, hold on, wait." And everybody, Kyle was like, "Just get out, just get out and me first."

So there's paparazzi outside of the house. I get out Emmy first and paparazzi start taking photos. Lamar, Lamar, Lamar. And because of that security was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all come on in. Get out. Yeah. I was like, oh, I think I'm about to go to the mall. You knew there's a no whole category of privilege. Emmy privilege. I'll accept it for as long as they're willing to give it to me. You know what I mean?

That's so cool. Because this doesn't happen often. Who knows? You know, knock on wood, I pray that I'm, you know, always doing work that people, you know, appreciate. And, you know, in this manner, it's great. It doesn't have to be this, but it's really appreciated. But I just want to keep doing good stuff where people find entertaining and amusing or, you know, tear jerking, whatever it is. But this might be the only one. I want more, but...

if this is the only one i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna ride this way forever we're about to i'm gonna see what i can get because they didn't give me no damn gift bag i didn't go to a gifting suite either so i'm pissed off about that you're like i want that free trip down to the caribbean yeah they had an africa trip they had a turkey trip get out yes you need to go you need to retroactively uh find your way get your people to call those people

You need to figure that out. I've said this before. I will say it again. You are a quarter of the way there. It's an EGOT. You know all that's going to happen. I see it. I'm telling you, this is my vision as your non-blood sister. I see it. I see a four out of four. I also see you hosting a really funny show that I like a lot. I'm putting that out there too. I would love to host it.

SNL. Lorne Michaels, what are you doing? That's what I'm saying. Lorne. Why are we doing this to me? Lorne. What are we doing? You have an Emmy Award winning star. Ready. It's a show about your legacy. Let's go. This is what I'm saying. We're going to send this to Lorne. I'm going to make it happen. I'm going to be behind the scenes Wizard of Oz-ing some things. I love you and I'm proud of you. And here's to many, many more. Cheers.

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