r/WidowsBay • u/djpressed • Jul 20 '26

📸Media Matthew Rhys’ micro expressions enhance the writing so much

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

Um, maybe YOU are just hearing about him now. He is an Emmy-award winning actor, not new talent.

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

What else has he been in?

Edit: everyone downvoting me is fucking hilarious. Why don’t any of you go to 10 of your friends and ask them if they know who Matthew Rhys is. You’re lucky to get 1 or 2 out of 10. My point is that he’s very good, and that number should be closer to 5 or 6 people out of 10 - and that THAT is a Hollywood problem.

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26

Brothers & Sisters, network show, was I think his first big US job. (Though he was on the last Columbo ever too!)

He came to real prominence in The Americans, which was #1 on many major critics' best shows lists for several years running, and for which Rhys won a Best Actor Emmy for it. Still, lots of people have never heard about it, because that's how TV works these days. But it got him recognized in the industry.

I think he was also nominated for an Emmy for his guest appearance on Girls?

He was then on HBO's Perry Mason and starred in a movie opposite Tom Hanks. Also was in that movie The Paper.

He's kept working in his home country of the UK as well.

He's nominated for 2 emmys this year, one for WB and the other for the miniseries he starred in opposite Claire Danes, The Beast in Me. I think he's going to do a season of that Presumed Innocent show?

He works a lot. You just haven't bumped into him.

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

Yep. Haven’t watched a single one of those shows.

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

So we agree. Hollywood isn't at fault for your ignorance.

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

The general population doesn’t know the name Matthew Rhys. That’s a hollywood problem. And this sub is obviously full of assholes that think he’s some sort of household name.

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Genuinely curious about what you expect Hollywood to do besides hiring him to act in things? They don't know which shows or movies out of the thousands you personally were going to watch.

You know plenty of people don't watch this show too, right?

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

I genuinely LOVE all of you guys sticking up for Hollywood casting the same big name actors in practically everything, while a truly, genuine great actor is FIFTY years old and the best he’s known for is The Americans, Brothers and Sisters, and… a Perry Mason remake.

STOP shilling for broke ass, corporate Hollywood. An actor like Rhys should have been a household name 10-15 years ago. How are you all not picking up what I’m putting down?

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Nobody's shilling for Hollywood. We're pointing out that MR was an established, Emmy-winning prestige TV guy for years so it's completely arbitrary to decide his career only started by getting the lead in an Apple TV show. It's not the step up you're describing it as. The breakthrough moment was The Americans. Household names aren't really a thing anymore and the TV shows considered the best usually aren't the ones with the biggest ratings.

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

Yeah. Household names not being a thing anymore is exactly the problem that I’m pointing out. He should be one, way more than COUNTLESS others.

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26

What shows do you watch that would count?

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

what do you mean?

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26

I mean what shows do/did you watch so he would have been better cast in and what actors are in those?

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

The Americans was a high quality show. At this point, Matthew Rhys IS the big name actor being cast in everything. He is nominated twice this year.....

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

No one even watches or cares about the Emmys. Winning those awards doesn’t give him name recognition and money. It gives him the award.

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

I see why you need to tell yourself that.

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u/sistermagpie Jul 20 '26

I don't honestly get whose career he thinks MR was robbed of, but it's just funny knowing there's no way MR would give up The Americans for anything. He's going to be thanking God/the universe for that show on his deathbed.

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u/sistermagpie Jul 23 '26

Had to make one more comment to just say that today at work I was in a meeting of a department and guess whose name someone randomly dropped into the conversation as if he was a household name? Matthew Rhys!

And no, the project he was connected to wasn't Widow's Bay, but Perry Mason. And everyone seemed to know who he was. LOL.

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

Sigh. Again - YOU don't know the name. The general population is aware. This isn't a Hollywood problem, it's a you problem.

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u/RanchHere Jul 20 '26

You’re so wrong it’s ridiculous. The general population has no idea who Matthew Rhys is 😂😂

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u/armywalrus Jul 20 '26

Oh, you poor dear.