The Pitt guest stars Brittany Allen and Jeff Kober have been nominated for Emmys after self-submitting.
Self-submitting itself is not uncommon, but it is more uncommon to land a nomination after going through that process. Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie is another rare example of a self-submission that landed a nomination, with Christie getting a node for her role as Brienne of Tarth in 2019.
Allen scored the Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actress in a drama series for her role as Roxie Hamler, a terminally ill cancer patient who arrives at the emergency room after breaking her leg and suffering from seizures. Over the course of several episodes, Roxie makes the decision to remain in the hospital to die, rather than return home to hospice care with her two sons and husband, due to the amount of pain she is in and the burden of remaining at home. As Roxie, Allen appears in seven of The Pitt’s 15-episode second season.
“The Pitt has hundreds of performers and we simply, just strategically, can’t submit everybody. It’s just the reality. But we encourage people to self-submit and I love that she got nominated,” Casey Bloys, HBO and Max Content Chair and CEO, said when asked about Allen in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
