This year’s Emmy Awards were all about TV reunions, while audiences around the country got to see the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Cheers” reunite, there were some unofficial ones that didn’t make the live broadcast.
Take the “Yellowjackets” cast and crew, who got back together before the show started.
The show was nominated for two Emmys including best drama series and lead actress in a drama for Melanie Lynskey. Hours before the show aired, the teen cast including Liv Hewson, Courtney Eaton, Sophie Nélisse, Sammi Hanratty and Kevin Alves had gathered in the lobby, chatting and taking selfies before doors to the main theater were open. They were joined by Warren Kole and later director Karyn Kusama and showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, as well as Tawny Cypress.
Yes, season 3 is being written and the show is expected to be back in production in late May. Lynskey was not in attendance, since the actor posted via her Instagram page that she had caught COVID.
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Lynskey was not the only nominee to miss out due to COVID, Two-time Emmy winner Christopher Storer (“The Bear”) was absent for the same reason. “Chris, sadly, is home sick with COVID,” the show’s star Ebon Moss-Bachrach later revealed in the press room.
Another reunion not captured by the cameras took place in the lobby of the JW Marriot. Moments before they walked the carpet, the queens of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 15 had gathered, and they turned heads, especially Princess Poppy who had come out of retirement for the occasion and dressed up as a green goblin. Princess Poppy had announced she was retiring from drag during the show. The cameras did capture the on-stage reunion when the show picked up the Emmy award for outstanding reality competition program.
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