{"id":286750,"date":"2020-01-19T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1113181"},"modified":"2020-01-19T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T03:00:12","slug":"sam-rockwell-admits-he-was-surprised-to-win-the-sag-award-for-fosse-verdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/sam-rockwell-admits-he-was-surprised-to-win-the-sag-award-for-fosse-verdon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rockwell Admits He Was Surprised to Win the SAG Award for Fosse\/Verdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019023\/rs_600x600-190123092035-600-fosse-verdon-fx-ch-012319.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.138397502601\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.582726326743\">\n<p>Gwen Verdon didn&#8217;t dance alone at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2020_sag_awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sam_rockwell\">Sam Rockwell<\/a><\/strong> didn&#8217;t break out any of his&nbsp;<em>Risky Business<\/em> moves, but maybe he was just too surprised&nbsp;at his win&nbsp;for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie for his portrayal of legendary choreographer and director&nbsp;Bob Fosse<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>in FX&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Fosse\/Verdon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy and Golden Globe had passed him by, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michelle_williams\">Michelle Williams<\/a><\/strong>, the Verdon to his Fosse, had won &#8217;em all, and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1113388\/michelle-williams-accepts-sag-award-for-fosse-verdon-with-sweet-message-for-daughter-matilda?query=michelle%20williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already taken the stage tonight<\/a> when he heard his name called.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not expect this at all,&#8221; said the actor\u2014a two-time winner in 2018 for supporting actor in a film and for his role in the ensemble of&nbsp;<em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri<\/em>. &#8220;You think you can dance and then you meet these Fosse choreographers&#8230;I had some <strong>MC Hammer<\/strong> moves and some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tom_cruise\">Tom Cruise<\/a><\/strong> <em>Risky Business<\/em> moves, but these people can really dance. They look like ordinary people but they&#8217;re really superheros.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;To my fellow nominees,&#8221; Rockwell continued, &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t think I would be standing here. I share this with all of you. And especially [director] Tommy Kail and the amazing Michelle Williams, my wonder twin. I can&#8217;t imagine doing this with anybody else but you.&#8221; His acting coach and a few others got a shout-out, as did his &#8220;beloved Leslie Bibb&#8221; for her support, as always.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life really can be a cabaret, old chum.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.356083086053\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"5.5192878338279\">\n<p>In this category, Rockwell beat out&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mahershala_ali\">Mahershala Ali<\/a><\/strong>for&nbsp;<em>True Detective<\/em>; Golden Globe winner&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/russell_crowe\">Russell Crowe<\/a><\/strong>(again absent from the award season hoopla due to the still-raging bush fires in his native Australia) for&nbsp;<em>The Loudest Voice<\/em>;&nbsp;<strong>Jared Harris<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>Chernobyl<\/em>; and Critics&#8217; Choice and Emmy winner <strong>Jharrel Jerome <\/strong>for&nbsp;<em>When They See Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1113181\/sam-rockwell-admits-he-was-surprised-to-win-the-sag-award-for-fosse-verdon?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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