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Who’s Our 2024 Emmy Villain?
You can blame Zaslav all you want for HBO’s decline, but he still doesn’t get the No. 1 spot.
But we can make the argument that critical hype for previous seasons of Emmy-nominated shows, along with prior TV Academy recognition, is a comparable metric and amounts to Major Contender status for past juggernauts like Succession. His status as an avatar of the studios during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and his role in annihilating projects like Batgirl and Coyote vs. ACME, in addition to that$49.7 million salary he collected in 2023, have turned him into the suit at whom you want to throw tomatoes. But while The Sympathizer might not have Emmy watchers hooting and hollering for RDJ to get another trophy, his Oscar win did represent a wave of goodwill for the actor, and it’s hard to imagine an en masse turn on him so quickly.
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