Matthew Rhys wins Emmy for lead actor in a limited series for 'The Beast in Me'

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Set us as preferred Winner winner chicken dinner — Matthew Rhys snagged the Emmy for lead actor in a limited series for his role on “The Beast in Me” on Monday.In Netflix’s eight-part crime thriller, the former “Americans” star portrays Nile Jarvis, the menacing and manipulative real estate scion suspected of murdering his first wife.

The series sees Jarvis go tête-à-tête with his neighbor Aggie Wiggs, a grieving mother and struggling author played by Claire Danes, who is convinced to make him the subject of her next book.“This is a real shock, because not least because the caliber and company of the actors in this category,” Rhys said.

“We had a beautiful holy trinity of scribes in the glorious form of Daniel Pearle, Gabe Rotter, and the inimitable Howard Gordon, who really brought up the beast in all of us, we were guided so beautifully by Antonio Campos, but certainly led ferociously, fiercely, fervently by the incredible Claire Danes.Thank you for letting me join the mystery machine and bringing out the beast.

You are an intimidating scene partner, but I’m very grateful for for all this.” Awards Here is a list of winners for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognize achievement in the television industry.Rhys previously told the Envelope podcast that the “big draw” of the series was that so much of it was in the escalating conversations between his and Danes’ characters.“[T]hese two people ...

they’re like two magnets in a way,” he said in the episode.“They’re so drawn, they are so repulsed, they’re kind of images of each other’s shadow self.

They see so much of each other while [being] polarizingly different.That to me was part of the great draw of that piece, with these two people and how they connected or seemingly didn’t.” He also said in a previous interview ...