Cristin Milioti Was in 'a State of Shock' as Her Daily Routine Got Disrupted by 'Meaningful' 1st Golden Globe Nom (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Cristin Milioti.Photo:Evelyn Freja for The Washington Post via Getty

Evelyn Freja for The Washington Post via Getty

Hours after becoming a first-timeGolden Globenominee,Cristin Miliotiis still trying to take it all in.

“I feel so grateful and joyful and excited, honestly,” Milioti, 39, says.

When the nominations were announced in the morning on Dec. 9, the actress says she was “getting my dog into his harness to take him for a walk, and my phone started to blow up.”

“I just took him for a walk and sort of tried to take it in,” she says.

Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone in ‘The Penguin’.MAX

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Since the announcement, friends have been calling and “checking in” with her, but it’s fair to say she’s still at a loss for words. “I’ve sort of just been in a sort of state of shock.”

The actresses nominated alongside her make this even more of a pinch-me moment. “To look at the women that I’m nominated with, I sort of can’t process it,” she says of the category’s big names, which includeCate Blanchett(Disclaimer),Jodie Foster(True Detective: Night Country),Sofía Vergara(Griselda),Naomi Watts(Feud: Capote vs. the Swans) andKate Winslet(The Regime).

“I think they are all so brilliant, and that is sort of blowing my mind currently.”

“It’s always so thrilling when you feel that something that you loved to make gets celebrated in such a big way, and also alongside people who have shaped your life,” she continues of the nomination. “I grew up, I’m obsessed with movies, and I’m so profoundly moved to even be in the same room [as these people].”

Though she hasn’t yet been in touch about their shared nominations, she says he’s “so lovely.”

Cristin Milioti and Colin Farrell in ‘The Penguin’.MAX

Milioti, who played Sofia Falcone in the series, will admit, though, that a Golden Globe nomination is not something she necessarily “ever envisioned” for herself — which makes it all the more special to be recognized for a show she loves so much.

Recalling her “gut alarm was firing on all cylinders” when she first read the script forThe Penguin, Milioti says, “I was like, ‘I need to play this. I love this character so much.’ And I’m so lucky that it worked out.”

Cristin Milioti in ‘The Penguin’.MAX

Whether she’ll be able to reprise the role she loved so much is “in the hands of the people up top,” she says, but she “would love it.”

“I would love to continue to get to play her, and I certainly hope for it, but I haven’t heard anything. Fingers crossed.

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The Penguincan be streamed in full on Max and the Golden Globes will air live on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

source: people.com