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It is a few days after the Emmys and Jake Lacy is, for good reason, still riding high. He had been nominated for his first time at the ceremony for his role on HBO’s The White Lotus, which also scored nods for a whopping eight cast members. “Getting nominated just wasn’t on my radar,” he tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. Then he got to see his friends and co-stars Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge win. In addition, creator/writer/director Mike White and the series itself took home top honors.
The darkly comic satire, about rich people behaving badly while on vacation in Hawaii, dominated the zeitgeist when it aired in 2021—so maybe its deluge of Emmy wins shouldn’t be a surprise. But it is certainly…something to be living in a world where a TV series that featured a hotel manager giving an employee a rim job and Lacy’s character pooping in a suitcase and stabbing someone is now considered award-worthy art.
“That’s the new bar now,” Lacy says with a laugh. “High or low, we set it.”