Matthew Macfadyen scored a Best Supporting Actor Critics' Choice Awards Nomination for Succession!

The Critics' Choice has announced today its 24th Annual Critics Choice Awards Nominations. Unfortunately, zero nominations for Keira Knightley (Colette) and Rosamund Pike (A Private War) in the film categories. Meanwhile, in the TV categories, Matthew Macfadyen’s HBO (10-episode) political drama series Succession scored 2 Critics Choice Awards Nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Matthew! The other is for Best Drama Series.
The winners will be revealed at the star-studded Critics’ Choice Awards gala, broadcast live on The CW Network on Sunday, January 13, 2019 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm ET (delayed PT).

Read more on MM and Succession's CCA2019 Nominations and cast interview from GQ Magazine below...

 
TELEVISION NOMINATIONS FOR THE 24^TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS

BEST DRAMA SERIES
The Americans (FX)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Homecoming (Amazon)
Killing Eve (BBC America)
My Brilliant Friend (HBO)
Pose (FX)
Succession (HBO) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Richard Cabral – Mayans M.C. (FX)
Asia Kate Dillon – Billions (Showtime)
Noah Emmerich – The Americans (FX)
Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)
Matthew Macfadyen – Succession (HBO)
Richard Schiff – The Good Doctor (ABC)
Shea Whigham – Homecoming (Amazon)

 

NOMINEES BY PROGRAM FOR THE 24^TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS

SUCCESSION (HBO) – 2

Best Drama Series
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – Matthew Macfadyen

Also, recently Succession is featured in GQ Magazine as Hollywood's Breakouts of 2018! Here's an excerpt of MM's part from the cast interview...

HBO Bet Big and Won With Succession

The cast of the knives-out drama tell us how they made the summer’s sharpest show.

Macfadyen: I just waited until the first script came in and then gobbled it up and then started. Unless you need to learn to do something specifically, like fly a helicopter or learn the saxophone, the writing’s so good that it’s all there. [Tom is] half suave, half dickhead.

Macfadyen: We had a [wardrobe] fitting, and I suddenly put the turtleneck on, and it was like, “Of course.” ’Cause he would have picked it out very carefully for the family Thanksgiving. And we just thought, “Yeah.” I looked sort of like a demented mime artist who thinks he’s James Bond.

Macfadyen: We did a read-through of the pilot on the eve of Election Night. So we all went to this gathering at Adam McKay’s house after the read-through to kind of watch the returns.  

Macfadyen: The party was, like…[makes sputtering noise]. But you think, “Anything that you put in the show, it’s kind of: Well, that’s fine now, because anything goes.”

Macfadyen: I had terrible giggles. Really bad. We set each other off, almost every scene. I had to say “Did you bitch me out, pig-man?” right in his face. “Did you bitch me out?” That was really, really difficult. And the slightest twinkle…I’d see it, and I’d be gone.

Macfadyen: When we were shooting, we were like, “Will anybody care about these entitled fuckheads with more money than God? Their trials and tribulations, their jerking for power, who cares?” A part of me did think, “Well, maybe it’s the last thing people want.”

Macfadyen: People are fascinated by wealth and power, but it’s family, I think, that’s the key thing. You go, “Oh God, that’s my idiot brother with delusions of grandeur” or “that’s my frightening sister” or “that’s my slightingly unnerving stepmother.” You can identify with all of them, regardless of whether they’re billionaires.

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