As a MTV Film & TV Awards class, Breakthrough Efficiency tends to acknowledge the parents that made TV and movie scenes their very own, at the same time as they weren’t essentially the top-billed stars. And this yr, nobody was extra able to be acknowledged than English actress Sophia Di Martino for her portrayal of Loki‘s Sylvie, an alternate model of the title character whose anger fuels her as each a hilarious and fierce warrior.
“That is truly actually heavy!” she mentioned in regards to the Golden Popcorn as she took the rostrum for her acceptance speech, the newest in an extended line of winners who’ve come to that realization upon being handed the coveted statue. After setting it down (correctly), she went into her personal story of portraying Sylvie and the story round her casting.
“I am so grateful for this. I like performed Sylvie, and I used to be 9 months pregnant once they supplied me the job,” she mentioned earlier than mentioning the challenges working moms in movie and tv are sometimes saddled with. “My child was three months previous after we began filming, so it has been fairly a journey. This implies lots to me.”
Kevin Winter/Getty PhotographsTo shut, she shouted out Loki director Kate Herron and star Tom Hiddleston for “welcoming me so warmly” and “being so supportive during.” Given her fierceness, humor, and dedication within the position, it made good sense that she’d be the one to stroll away with the Golden Popcorn.
Di Martino beat out Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza, Ariana DeBose in West Facet Story, Hacks‘s Hannah Einbinder, and Jung Ho-yeon in Squid Recreation within the class.
Final yr, the award went to Bridgerton‘s Regé-Jean Web page.
The 2022 MTV Film & TV Awards are airing reside from the Barker Hangar in L.A. proper now on MTV, with the Film & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED to comply with. Discover all of the winners right here.
