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Dan Fogelman may or may not be a ‘drunk train wreck’ at the Emmys

By Shea Corrigan

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 18: (L-R, Back Row) Actors Chris Sullivan, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ron Cephas Jones, (l-r, front row) creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman, actors Sterling K. Brown and Chrissy Metz of the television show 'This Is Us' speak onstage during the NBCUniversal portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 18, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 18: (L-R, Back Row) Actors Chris Sullivan, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ron Cephas Jones, (l-r, front row) creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman, actors Sterling K. Brown and Chrissy Metz of the television show 'This Is Us' speak onstage during the NBCUniversal portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 18, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) /
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The This Is Us creator admits he’s the cast member most likely to end up drunk on Emmy night if the show wins Outstanding Drama Series.

We don’t know if you’ve heard, but This Is Us was nominated for 11 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series and Lead Actor in a Drama nods for Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia. (Let’s not talk about the blasphemous Lead Actress category.) The whole thing is kind of a big deal and the cast and crew, a family about as close as the Pearsons themselves, are pretty damn excited about it. But no one, perhaps, is more anxious than creator Dan Fogelman.

Fogelman, in an interview with Tribune Review, had quite a bit to share about the Emmy whirlwind, from almost missing the nomination to Pearson Group Chat: Awards Edition and finally the odds that he’s the first to get drunk at the Emmys.

The high likelihood he ends up a train wreck, Fogelman explained, is due to the fact it’s new for the cast. Brown, who went through award season last year, including a supporting actor win, with the limited series, The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, has been here before. For everyone else, it’s new. But they’re all rather more composed than Fogelman himself. As he told Tribune:

"I find that our cast, when we started to go to these things, are remarkably centered and elegant and I’m like the drunk train wreck in the corner, just anxious about: What if we happen to win something and I have to go up there and say something? It’s literally the most terrifying thing I can think of."

He went on to recall the team’s trip to the Golden Globes — an award show that is notorious for the copious amounts of alcohol nominees and award winners imbibe over the course of a  long night. By his own admission, he was just destroyed by the time their category was announced, saying, “it would have been a disaster if he had won.”

No doubt he’ll keep it a bit more together at the Emmy’s — after all, the hopes and dreams of broadcast TV depend on him.

If — knock on wood, do all your superstitious things — This Is Us does win Outstanding Drama Series, we can only assume Fogelman will pull out a heartwarming speech, some Jack-walking-out-the-door level stuff. And we will, naturally, cry.

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