{"id":316616,"date":"2023-07-16T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316616"},"modified":"2023-07-16T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T22:57:48","slug":"last-of-us-actor-didnt-know-he-was-emmy-nominee-because-of-basketball-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316616","title":{"rendered":"Last of Us actor didn&#039;t know he was Emmy nominee because of basketball camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keivonn Montreal Woodard&#8217;s Emmy nomination for his role as Sam Burrell in HBO show <em>The Last of Us<\/em> was notable for multiple reasons: he is the youngest actor to receive a nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series, the second-youngest Emmy nominee in history,\u00a0and is the first Black deaf actor to be nominated, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/emmys-2023-the-last-of-us-keivonn-montreal-woodard-nomination-makes-history-7560613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But anyone who followed along closely for updates likely learned of this before the young actor. You see, the 10-year-old was at basketball camp, so it took some extra time to convey the news.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/news\/last-of-us-craig-mazin-emmy-reactions-writers-strike-1235668634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a>, co-creator and showrunner Craig Mazin said he spoke to Montreal Woodard&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(She) had no idea what was going on today. She\u2019s like, \u201cWhat? What happened?\u201d And she\u2019s so excited, and can\u2019t wait to talk Keivonn \u2014 who currently has no idea because he\u2019s in basketball camp,&#8221; Mazin said to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Woodard is rising as an actor, but his aspirations actually lie in sports \u2014 and not in basketball, but in hockey. In February, a video of his charming <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/the-last-of-us-actor-deaf-youth-hockey-player-meets-alexander-ovechkin-in-heartwarming-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interaction with Alex Ovechkin went viral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So even though he has become better-known named, Woodard is continuing to do things kids do &#8212; like ignore news of award shows for basketball camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Keivonn Montreal Woodard was nominated for an Emmy for his Last of Us role, but it took some while to convey the news for a hilarious (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316617,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316616\/revisions\/316617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}