At Sunday’s Unbiased Spirit Awards, actor Nick Offerman addressed “homophobic hate” aimed over the previous yr at “Lengthy, Lengthy Time,” the stand-alone episode of HBO‘s post-apocalyptic drama The Final of Us that he starred in with Murray Bartlett and that earned Offerman a win at the moment for Finest Supporting Efficiency in a New Scripted Sequence.
“Thanks a lot, Movie Unbiased. I’m astonished to be on this class, which is bananas,” Offerman started whereas onstage to simply accept the prize. “Because of HBO for having the center to take part on this storytelling custom that’s really impartial. Tales with guts that when homophobic hate comes my means and says, ‘Why did you must make it a homosexual story?’ We are saying, ‘Since you ask questions like that.’”
Added an impassioned Offerman: “It’s not a homosexual story, it’s a love story, you a**gap.”
Offerman additionally received an Emmy for his activate The Final of Us as Invoice, a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, whose decades-long love story with accomplice Frank (Bartlett) is chronicled in what has been maybe essentially the most mentioned episode of the present’s first season. Along with Bartlett, Offerman at the moment bested Spirit Awards contenders within the gender-neutral class that included Billie Eilish (Swarm), Jack Farthing (Rain Canines), Adina Porter (The Changeling), Lewis Pullman (Classes in Chemistry), Benny Safdie (The Curse), Luke Tennie (Shrinking), Olivia Washington (I’m a Virgo) and Jessica Williams (Shrinking).
Starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey — the latter, additionally nominated at the moment — The Final of Us is at the moment in manufacturing in Vancouver on its second season. Within the press room at final evening’s SAG Awards after profitable the award for Male Actor In a Drama Sequence, Pascal revealed that filming on the second season “goes superb.”
The actor went on to say that “it’s kind of awe-inspiring the sort of focus and dedication that everybody has going into Season 2.”
