Everyday PR groups send emails, screeners, press releases, and promo materials that try desperately to get face time with silly stunts or assumptions that you care about being a boldfaced whore for their interests. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong, but rarely does a request actually stand out enough to earn its complete lack of subtlety. Today one does, and that is the Emmy Nomination Campaign for Michael Rooker.
It’s been a few months since The Walking Dead divided geek audiences while capturing the attention of the mainstream crowd, and we’re already hearing about filming for Season 2, and yet it still hasn’t gone through awards season. Well now it’s time, and Rooker is among a wide batch of actors up for a potential nomination for “Best Guest Actor In A Drama Series.”
Michael Rooker is one of the greats- a batshit character actor that would be as fun off screen as he is on screen, if he wasn’t so goddamn excellent every time he’s on screen. He’s one of James Gunn’s favorites so his latest big screen appearance is in the gritty superhero send-off Super, and most geeks likely know him from Mallrats, but he’s been a staple since the late 80s. Now some wonderful folks are working to make sure he gets his due at the Emmy’s (which don’t deserve him, but we’ll take it) with an excellent series of “For Your Consideration” posters.
And if you think this isn’t one-hundred percent the real deal, you can look at the Emmy nom ballot yourself, where Rooker is number 1063…
Michael Rooker
as Merle
The Walking DeadA handcuffed and delirious Merle mumbles to himself on the roof of the department store. When walkers clamor at the stairwell door, he snaps out of his daze and resumes his task: using his belt to try to reel in a hacksaw lying just out of reach
There is a boring, straightforward poster at the bottom, but the other three are very fun. I want more. I want TV spots, internet ads, the works.
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