‘Penguin’ star Cristin Milioti drops new Emmy, takes brutal fall arriving at afterparty
Falcone’s brutal fall.
Cristin Milioti was on a high when she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her role in “The Penguin” at Sunday’s show.
But later in the night, the 40-year-old actress literally hit a low when she fell and dropped her Emmy while arriving at an afterparty in Los Angeles.
As seen in a video circulating online, Milioti had on a black leather jacket and was all smiles moments before she took the spill.
The “Black Mirror” star approached the building and suddenly fell right to the ground, dropping her winning gold trophy in the process.
A man immediately rushed to help Milioti up while also grabbing her Emmy from the ground.
“Oh my god,” Milioti could be heard saying as she looked at her Emmy on the pavement.
Milioti then laughed off the snafu and walked into the party with her trophy in hand.
“Thanks, bye!” she told the crowd of bystanders who witnessed the fall.
The TV Academy rewarded Milioti for her critically acclaimed performance as Sofia Falcone in HBO’s “The Batman” spinoff series.
She beat out Cate Blanchett (“Disclaimer”), Rashida Jones (“Black Mirror”), Michelle Williams (“Dying for Sex”) and Meghann Fahy (“Sirens”) for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
Milioti, who wore a crimson-red Danielle Frankel gown to the award show, told the audience from the stage that she wrote her speech on the back of notes she took in therapy.
“It’s very hard to make sense of being alive right now in this world, so I’m deeply grateful for the bright spots,” she said at LA’s Peacock Theater. “Making this show with our incredible cast and crew, and getting to inhabit this woman was a bright spot for me. Despite it being very grisly, playing her felt like flying.”
She thanked her family, her colleagues including co-star Colin Farrell, and “The Penguin” creator Lauren LeFranc “whose brain I wanna freebase.”
At the end of her speech, Milioti closed her eyes and shouted, “I love you and I love acting so much! Woo!”
During an interview with Entertainment Tonight backstage at the Emmys, Milioti said her “spirit left her body” when she won her category.
“I kept getting lost in my speech, too, and thinking like, ‘Oh no I forgot. Oh God, I’m forgetting.’ But it also feels amazing,” she explained. “It’s an adrenaline rush. I feel like I was just shot out of a TV shirt canon.”
Milioti also confirmed she was “gonna go absolutely hog wild with my cast and our crew” at the afterparty.
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