Bryan Cranston and Seth Rogen in 'The Studio'. (Photo: Apple TV+)[Missing Credit]
In the lead actor in a comedy section, Rogen was up against fellow Jewish actors Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This, and Jason Segel in Shrinking.
Meanwhile Hacks star Hannah Einbinder, who won best supporting actress in a comedy, wore a red Artists4Ceasefire pin and said controversially at the end of her acceptance speech: “Go birds, f*** ICE and free Palestine.”
The Los Angeles-born actor, who was last week among film industry figures – including Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman – to sign the Film Workers for Palestine pledge to not work with Israeli film institutions, said she felt it is her “obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel”.
Einbinder told media at the Emmys: “I have friends in Gaza who are working as frontline workers, as doctors, right now in the north of Gaza, to provide care for pregnant women, and [working] for schoolchildren to create schools in the refugee camps.
“It’s an issue that’s really close to my heart for many reasons. I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture is such an important and longstanding … institution that is really separate to the ethno-nationalist state.”
Hannah Einbinder, winner of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks (Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images)Getty Images
She also said: “Boycotting is an effective tool to create pressure on the powers that be to meet the moment. The Film Workers for Palestine boycott does not boycott individuals; it only boycotts institutions that are directly complicit in the genocide … I think it’s an important measure, so I was happy to be a part of it.”
Other Jewish stars nominated included Ben Stiller for Severance, Jason Isaacs for The White Lotus, Ike Barinholtz for The Studio, Ebon Moss-Bachrach for The Bear, Nicole Kassell for Sirens and Noah Wyle for The Pitt.
Wyle won best lead actor in a drama series for his role as Dr Michael Robinavitch, a character shaped by his Jewish roots in The Pitt, a medical drama created by the same team as ER.
The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, won the award for reality competition programme.
Rogen co-created The Studio with his childhood Hebrew school friend and Superbad collaborator Evan Goldberg. Jewishness – his own and that of the industry at large – features among the real-life experiences reflected in the show.
“There’s a lot of jokes about it in the show,” Rogen has said. “It’s an industry largely founded by Jewish people; I think almost all the original heads of all the major studios were Jewish people because Jews were not allowed to work in other industries and movies were really looked down upon and viewed as a kind of garbage industry that was kind of fit for Jews, and we did great with it, so, you know – thank God.”
