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"It&amp;#x27;s still July and Hollywood is already in Emmy mode. Yep, that&amp;#x27;s how things are rolling this year because the Emmys are in August and on a Monday night. At the Television Academy&amp;#x27;s Performers Peer Group celebration at the Montage Beverly Hill last night, I caught up with Modern Family&amp;#x27;s Ty Burrell and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Veep&amp;#x27;s Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale, Scandal&amp;#x27;s Joe Morton, and others to find out Emmy secrets, episode submissions, and why watching old episodes of certain shows is the equivalent of tuning in to the Muppet Babies. Things got wild. Here&amp;#x27;s your recap: (from left) Kevin Spacey, Lily Tomlin, Billy Bob Thornton, Joe Morton, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Bob Bergen of the Television Academy, Minnie Driver, Allison Janney, Ty Burrell, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (nominee for Veep; Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series) looked stunning in Narcisco Rodriguez. Remember last year&amp;#x27;s hilarious acceptance speech when Louis-Dreyfus accepted as her Veep character? &amp;quot;I thought of it that morning in the shower,&amp;quot; Louis-Dreyfus admitted. &amp;quot;It was really last-minute, which is how things usually are for me.&amp;quot; Louis-Dreyfus&amp;#x27; Veep costar (and fellow Emmy nominee) Tony Hale reiterated his boss&amp;#x27;s comments. &amp;quot;She called me that morning and said, &amp;#x27;Hey, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve got an idea. I&amp;amp;#8217;m thinking that if I win, I want you to come up and carry my purse.&amp;#x27; I&amp;amp;#8217;m thinking, &amp;#x27;Oh crap, this could go really wrong. It could go really, really wrong.&amp;#x27; But when you&amp;amp;#8217;re with her, it&amp;amp;#8217;s just the greatest.&amp;quot; Just the fact that Hale is nominated is enough for him. &amp;quot;If I ever stop being excited about it, someone needs to hit me. There were so many years when you&amp;amp;#8217;re just like, &amp;#x27;Give me a job!&amp;#x27; so when this comes, you&amp;amp;#8217;re just so stoked about the whole thing.&amp;quot; But Hale seems to have set his goals higher this year. Inside the party, Hale joked to his wife that I approved a huge photo spread of him in an upcoming issue of Glamour. I&amp;#x27;m always so excited to see one of my best friends in the business, Modern Family&amp;#x27;s Ty Burrell (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy), who actually drove 12 hours (by himself!) from his second home in Utah to make it in time to the prestigious gathering. That, my friends, is dedication. After we talked the exciting upcoming season for the St. Louis Rams, I turned to more serious matters&amp;amp;#8212;you know, what it&amp;#x27;s like to watch yourself on TV. &amp;quot;You land on episodes being broadcast on the USA network and it&amp;#x27;s crazy. I look like I&amp;#x27;m 12. What happened?!&amp;quot; Burrell joked. Burrell&amp;#x27;s Emmy-nominated costar, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, was equally as confused by those early episodes. &amp;quot;The kids were so itty-bitty! It&amp;#x27;s like an episode of the Muppet Babies when I watch the first season of our show!&amp;quot; Ferguson laughed. &amp;quot;We all looked so young. Even Ed [O&amp;#x27;Neill]. We all looked so little, it was totally the Muppet Babies!&amp;quot; So what episodes did Burrell and Ferguson submit for this year&amp;#x27;s Emmy race? Burrell sent in the one where Phil hosts the banquet. &amp;quot;That was a fun one to do. My wife helps me pick though. She has better taste than I do!&amp;quot; As for Ferguson? He went with the episode titled &amp;quot;Message Received,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;where Mitchell has a conversation with Jay about his discomfort with our wedding. I love that scene with Ed.&amp;quot; Emmy nominee Minnie Driver was still floating on cloud nine for her nod in Lifetime&amp;#x27;s Return to Zero. &amp;quot;It was just one of the happiest days of my life,&amp;quot; the About a Boy star gushed. But come Emmy morning, things will be a different story. &amp;quot;Oh, I&amp;#x27;ll be terrified! You have a camera on you when they&amp;#x27;re announcing your category and it&amp;#x27;s an incredibly vulnerable moment. I always feel for everybody in those five boxes they show.&amp;quot; Minnie looked incredible in her Mara Hoffman minidress and Donna Kara cobalt blue pumps. Of the look, Minnie joked, &amp;quot;I love that it could go so wrong, so fast! There&amp;amp;#8217;s not that much longer that I can genuinely wear a dress like this and you go, &amp;#x27;Oh my God, somebody tell her she can&amp;amp;#8217;t wear that anymore!&amp;#x27; I figured, I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to wear until somebody tells me. [Laughs]&amp;quot; Meanwhile, I expressed to Scandal&amp;#x27;s Joe Morton (Rowan Pope) that I&amp;#x27;m terrified any time I watch him, Kerry Washington, or Jeff Perry do a scene. After all, those scenes are so intense that I fear the actors will need medical attention just to recover. Emmy nominee Morton got a kick out of that. &amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s hilarious, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s like going to the best steakhouse in the world and getting the best steak ever. That&amp;amp;#8217;s what it&amp;amp;#8217;s like. You can&amp;amp;#8217;t wait to get involved with the meal.&amp;quot; So do you need a nap or something afterward I wondered? &amp;quot;Haha, no,&amp;quot; laughed Morton. &amp;quot;I actually worry about everything I did in the scene!&amp;quot; Another thing Morton&amp;#x27;s worrying about? Emmy morning. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll probably throw up. I have no idea. Awards are lovely and everybody wants to win one, but you kind of have to let it go and say, &amp;#x27;Whatever&amp;amp;#8217;s going to happen is going to happen.&amp;#x27; It&amp;amp;#8217;s not within my power to do anything about it.&amp;quot; Billy Bob Thornton (a nominee for Fargo) revealed that he&amp;#x27;s just as anxious on red carpets. &amp;quot;I get real nervous. I sort of put on a face, but I am really nervous around people. I always have been. I&amp;amp;#8217;m really shy by nature, and people say, &amp;#x27;Yeah, but you&amp;amp;#8217;re really talkative!&amp;#x27; and I say, &amp;#x27;I keep talking because I&amp;amp;#8217;m so nervous!&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; Double nominee Allison Janney (for Mom and Masters of Sex) kept the nervous theme going by revealing that she&amp;#x27;s a bundle of nerves come Emmy morning. &amp;quot;I wish I could say it&amp;#x27;s magical from start to finish, but I get nervous that I&amp;#x27;ll be stuck in traffic, nervous I&amp;#x27;ll say something I shouldn&amp;#x27;t say on the red carpet, or nervous I&amp;#x27;ll just say something stupid,&amp;quot; the statuesque actress admitted. &amp;quot;But this year I&amp;#x27;m going to really try to relax. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never been married, but I would imagine this is what it&amp;amp;#8217;s like on your wedding day. My mother tries to tell me, &amp;#x27;Just think of all of us in Ohio, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s a rainy and drab day, and we turn on the TV and watch you sparkle on the red carpet,&amp;#x27; so I always try to think of my mom when I walk down the red carpet.&amp;quot; The TV Academy also unveiled the decor for this year&amp;#x27;s Emmy Governors Ball theme, and it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Kaleidoscope of Color&amp;quot; with signature courses by Patina Catering, wines by Beaulieu Vineyard, and H2O from Fiji Water (you know, to keep everyone from completely overdoing it). Audi is also rolling out their brand-new Q3 to transport celebrity presenters to and from the Emmy ceremony. Yes, it pays to be famous. Now that I&amp;#x27;ve bonded with Tony Hale, I&amp;#x27;ll see if I can catch a ride with him and his wife. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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