Shout it from the rooftops, let it echo down the halls of power: “I love acting so much, wooo!” That’s how Cristin Milioti ended her acceptance speech at the 2025 Emmy Awards. Milioti won Outstanding Mullet Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her role in The Penguin. Milioti played Sofia Falcone, scion-ette of the Falcone crime family, who battles Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) for control of Gotham. Milioti tried to keep her speech short (Nate Bargatze’s countdown clock keeps on ticking), but was overcome with enthusiasm for her profession and her coworkers. Which is how award shows should be, quite frankly!
Milioti said she wrote her speech on the back of her therapy notes, “so don’t look at the back.” Not the same situation as Britt Lower. “I loved making this show and I loved playing Sofia so much,” she said. “It’s very hard to make sense of being alive right now in this world, so I’m deeply grateful for the bright spots. And 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.” Milioti thanked her family for showing her movies “that were very inappropriate for my age,” her friends, Farrell, and The Penguin show runner Lauren LeFranc, “whose brain I want to freebase.” How very appropriate for the character.
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Even Nate Bargatze’s speech timer couldn’t dampen her enthusiasm.
