Kathy Bates and Alan Cumming have 25-year “Annie ”reunion on Emmys stage

The 2025 Emmys have seen a lot of touching on-stage reunions up to now — from Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham taking us again to Stars Hole with a Gilmore Women reunion, to Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai bringing Shogun to the Peacock Theater stage to announce Excellent Writing for a Drama Collection. However nobody anticipated a reunion of two stars of one of the vital beloved made-for-TV films of the Nineteen Nineties.

Alan Cumming and Kathy Bates took the stage on the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards to current the award for Excellent Writing for a Selection Collection. As they introduced as nominees the groups behind Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Day by day Present, and Saturday Night time Dwell (and offered Oliver's staff with the award), the elder millennials watching at dwelling who grew up on a gradual eating regimen of late-'90s TV films might have realized, That is Miss Agatha Hannigan and her little brother Rooster from Annie!

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The pair have been part of the starry forged of ABC's adaptation of the legendary Broadway musical, which additionally included Victor Garber, Audra McDonald, Sarah Hyland, and Kristin Chenoweth. Bates performed the sadistic proprietor and operator of the orphanage that gives a house — and never a lot else — to the titular little orphan (Alicia Morton). Cumming, in the meantime, performed Miss Agatha's troublemaker youthful brother, Daniel Francis, additionally referred to as "Rooster."

In reality, Cumming really performed two roles, as his character is employed by his sister to go in disguise as Ralph Mudge, who falsely claims to be Annie's father.

Each Bates and Cumming have been nominated on the 2025 Emmy Awards and their counterpart, the Inventive Arts Emmys. Bates for her efficiency as Madeline "Matty" Matlock in CBS' new twist on the traditional authorized drama Matlock, and Cumming for each Excellent Host for a Actuality or Actuality Competitors Program for The Traitors, and as a member of the Traitors crew for Excellent Actuality Competitors Program.

Cumming received each of his awards, whereas Bates misplaced to Severance star Britt Decrease.

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