Hollywood singer and actress Selena Gomez appeared emotional as she won a Screen Actors Guild award (SAG) along with the cast of Only Murders In The Building. The 32-year-old saw her Disney+ show with comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short win outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the 31st ceremony on Sunday in Los Angeles.
The trio play true crime obsessives who start a podcast about murders that take place in their swanky New York apartment building. After hearing that Only Murders In The Building won, Gomez stood up and looked stunned as walked towards the stage, seeming to mouth the words: “Oh my god.”.
Standing on stage with co-stars Michael Cyril Creighton, Richard Kind, and Molly Shannon, Gomez said: “Wait, we never win, this is so weird.”. She then addressed the absence of Short and Martin, who did not attend the ceremony. Gomez said: “Well, Marty and Steve aren’t here because they don’t really care.
“But I just don’t know what to say… Thank you to Marty and Steve for helping raise me. “I’m genuinely so grateful (to) everybody, the writers. Everyone deserves this, and I take it home for all of us, and I’m bringing this back to New York for season five, thank you so much.”.
Only Murders In The Building, which has run for four seasons and featured guest stars including Sting, Meryl Streep and Tina Fey, has been nominated for 16 Golden Globes – but not walked away with a prize. The series has won seven Emmys, out of 49 nominations, including a single acting gong for The Producers actor Nathan Lane as local deli owner Teddy Dimas.
At SAG, Canada-born Short, 74, won outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy for playing theatre producer Oliver Putnam. Gomez also saw her Emilia Perez co-star Zoe Saldana pick up the best supporting actress film gong for playing a lawyer who helps a Mexican drug boss change gender in the Netflix musical.
