{"id":772295,"date":"2026-09-16T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772295\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:04:13","slug":"luck-and-timing-matthew-rhys-on-his-historic-emmy-awards-double-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772295\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Luck and timing&#8217;: Matthew Rhys on his historic Emmy Awards double win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh actor Matthew Rhys described the &#8220;surreal and incredible feeling&#8221; after making history on Monday by becoming the first person to win two lead acting prizes in one night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhys was recognised at the prestigious US ceremony for his roles in supernatural TV comedy Widow&#8217;s Bay and psychological thriller The Beast In Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC, Rhys said he wasn&#8217;t expecting to win the first award for The Beast In Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hadn&#8217;t really prepared anything, as may be apparent from the vomit of a speech I came up with,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqlykdx48xrpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh actor Matthew Rhys makes Emmy Awards history with double win<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh actor Matthew Rhys described the &#8220;surreal and incredible feeling&#8221; after making history on Monday by becoming the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}