Ayo Edebiri needed someone to hold her purse at the 2023 Emmy Awards. After the 28-year-old The Bear star was announced as the winner of the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category, she immediately responded by handing her bag to Carson Daly, who was seated beside her at the event.
“I hope he still has all my stuff. If my stuff is gone when I get back to my seat, I’ll know that Carson Daly took it,” she quipped to ET’s Nischelle Turner of The Voice host. “I think I literally was like, ‘I’m so sorry, can you please hold my stuff, Carson Daly?’ I was out of my mind. It was a crazy moment.”
That special moment continued when Christina Applegate was the one to hand Edebiri her award onstage.
“She’s such a special performer, somebody I have been watching my whole life, such an amazing woman. I’m so in awe of her, her career, but also her journey,” Edebiri praised. “One of my best friends has MS, so it’s just so cool to receive that moment from her.”
During her acceptance speech, Edebiri expressed her thanks to her parents and joked about them not sitting beside her.
“They were behind me to the right. I hope people don’t think I’m a bad child. I didn’t make the seating arrangement,” she told ET. “They give you one ticket. I asked for two. There was a little kerfuffle. They have good seats. They just weren’t next to me because Carson Daly was next to me. I didn’t make the arrangement. Can’t stress that enough.”
At the end of the day, Edebiri said she’s “pretty floored” by becoming an Emmy winner.
“My name was in league with a lot of really amazing performances and shows in their final season and all that stuff. I’m just really, really floored,” she said, before acknowledging the success of The Bear overall at the Emmys, calling herself and her co-workers “very, very, very fortunate.”
“I think that’s really all you can say,” she said. “It’s weird, these things, they make it win or lose, but I love TV. I love watching TV. The shows and performances that we were nominated alongside are so good. To have any sort of recognition really, especially form our peers, is stunning and humbling and really nice.”
As she moves forward Monday night after her big win, Edebiri noted, “I’m just sort of letting life happen and trying to be a decent person on the way. I don’t think this has anything to do with me anymore. I can see my mom being like, ‘See, all the prayers, they work.'”
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, originally set to take place last September, was postponed due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Hosted by Anthony Anderson at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the ceremony will air live Monday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET on Fox, and will be streamed Tuesday, Jan. 16 on Hulu. Keep checking ETonline.com for complete Emmys coverage and for the full winners’ list.
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