Once a Taylor Swift guy, always a Taylor Swift guy.
A clean-shaven Ebon Moss-Bachrach accepted the best supporting actor in a comedy at Sunday night’s 2024 Emmys—actually the second time he’s nabbed that award this calendar year, thanks to scheduling, but who’s counting—for his work in The Bear, but another furry friend, not of the ursine variety, has his heart.
“Thank you to my parents, they’re taking such nice care of my cat,” he said from the stage, before thanking his human children.
In season two of the critically acclaimed dramedy (its awards status as a “comedy” was the butt of many jokes throughout the night), Moss-Bachrach’s Richie embraces his true self as both a Suit Guy and a Taylor Swift guy, culminating in a triumphant singalong moment to “Love Story” as he drives his beater through Chicago. He didn’t get another explicitly Swiftie-coded moment in the third season, but his charming dual shout-out to his parents and his cat kind of made up for it.
And really, the guy loves that cat. Moss-Bachrach rarely posts to social media, but one of his most recent Instagram shares is simply a picture of Sonny the cat, captioned, fittingly, “Sonny!”
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It could just be that what he was thinking up there, chin exposed to the world, was simply that he loves his cat. He could have been winking toward fellow cat lover Swift, who not only assisted with his character’s big moment, but also recently signed off on her endorsement of Kamala Harris for president with “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady.” Seeing as he couldn’t super join in on the thousand tiny “childless cat lady” jabs at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, being neither childless nor a lady, he was pledging his allegiance to the Fancy Feast lifestyle and progressive politics as best he could.
Moss-Bachrach was also responsible for another of the night’s most charming moments: When he won, co-star Ayo Edebiri leaped up to embrace him, then reacted with delighted surprise when Moss-Bachrach also reached across her to shake her father’s hand in congratulations. The familial vibe and love—which Jeremy Allen White referenced in his acceptance speech, and which Edebiri told Vanity Fair about—couldn’t have been more apparent.
