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Harvey spoke to Charles Bright of GoldDerby last week on a webchat about What We Do In The Shadows ending, his voice acting career, and his incredible red carpet collaborations with Christian Siriano.

I want to do a full retrospective on this topic eventually, but that's somehow an even bigger undertaking than chronicling all of Guillermo's sweaters, so it may take a while. In the meantime, I've provided a write-up of the fashion portion of the chat below, along with some photos and additional fashion commentary from yours truly!

You can watch the full webchat here.

"Well you've got to remember that being a guy of size, not a lot of people or designers were willing to dress me," Harvey begins, in response to a question about his favorite red carpet look from the past two years. "And it's upsetting. It reminds me of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman going 'I've got money to spend in here!'"

Harvey has spoken before about how prior to 2022, he dressed himself for red carpet events, and sometimes even had to provide his own costumes on set when the costume department didn't have anything that fit him. This is a problem many plus sized entertainers have encountered over the years, even as conversations about body positivity and fat acceptance have become more prominent in public discourse.

Siriano deserves a lot of credit for his track record of breaking barriers in fashion, for getting on board with Harvey's vision, and for bringing some incredible, iconic, history-making looks to life. But Harvey had been slaying on red carpets for years before their collaboration began, often in looks he put together himself without the aid of a designer or stylist. His love of fashion is not new, and his sense of style has always been on point!

Hollywood has been extremely reluctant to be inclusive in this way, with the media often reacting to even one or two high profile plus sized celebrities with concern trolling about whether they're "glorifying obesity" just by existing as successful and talented people in larger bodies in the public eye. But just as with so many other aspects of his career, Harvey has simply carved out doors for himself when none were opening.

"People don't take a risk because they're afraid, right?" Harvey explains. "But you could be the first! I've been fortunate. Talking to Christian Siriano, I was getting ready for the Academy Awards and I had this vision of like...'I really want to do something different, and I know that you don't really dress guys. I want to find a happy medium where it's masculine, and a little feminine, but it's me,' and it just wasn't something that they usually do."

"But we collaborated and we had this idea of like, what if it was the 1920s, but I'm going in a style that's retro, so it's the Gilded Age. So my hair is 1922 but I'm giving a nod to the Gilded Age because that would be vintage back in 1922. And so that's how I got that idea, and then we got the whole tuxedo flare and whatnot."

The now-iconic tuxedo gown Harvey wore to the 2023 Oscars.

"Working with Christian has been great. After that I think Vogue ran it, and it got all this attention, and people were like 'woah! a plus size guy looking good in fashion' and I was like 'yeah, we are out here and there's a lot of us! And I feel like there's just not designers who are designing for us or making it available to us.'"

Harvey's red carpet look for the Oscars, as well as his look for the Vanity Fair after party, appeared on multiple best dressed lists. He was even declared the best dressed person on the Oscars red carpet by MsMojo.

"After that Christian and I became friends," Harvey says. "I hosted the GLAAD awards and he dressed me for that, and I was honored with an award in California and he dressed me for that...and so we've been collaborating on different outfits."

Harvey and Christian Siriano have now collaborated on ten different outfits for half a dozen events since the start of 2023, including most recently the 2024 Critic's Choice Awards in January (where he once again made it only best dressed lists, such as this one from TVInsider) and the Garfield movie premiere in May.

"The Met Gala last year was, I think, the cherry on top, because it was a kind of nod to Chanel with a tweed in pink. But [the gala] was also honoring Karl Lagerfeld, and to be in my body, and being a POC, and wearing pink--so still honoring but not forgetting, and also representing myself--was a nice collaboration, and I think that gown was really beautiful and I loved it."

Harvey's Met Gala ensemble was easily one of the most impressive of the night, managing to be both flawlessly on theme while also being a creative interpretation that critiqued the subject of the theme.

Harvey finishes up his thoughts on his red carpet style by saying he wants to continue working with Siriano, as well as other designers who are willing to take a chance with him.

"The payoff is, you know, like you said: people look to people in film and television to be inspired, and be like 'why can't I? I can wear that! Where can I get that?' You know? And it's like you should be able to get that. Let's make it available to all of us."

Sounds great to me, Harvey! And it's true.

Quibi is looking for a big breakthrough at the Emmys with its bite-sized shows. Of the 33 entries in the Best Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category, 12 are from Quibi, one of which is the 10-part musical comedy “Royalties.”

Directed by Amy Heckerling (“Clueless,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”), the series stars Darren Criss and Kether Donohue as songwriting duo Pierce and Sara, two aspiring artists who work catering jobs to stay afloat while pursuing their passion on the side. When they finally get their first big break, they quickly find themselves navigating the hilarious and sometimes bizarre challenges of stringing together songs for some of the world’s most insane (fictional) artists. These are portrayed by a slew of well-known guest actors, including Sabrina Carpenter, Jennifer Coolidge, Mark Hamill, Julianne Hough, Lil Rel Howery, Jordan Fisher, Bonnie McKee, Jackie Tohn and Rufus Wainwright. If that’s not enough names, the show also features Georgina King, Tony Revolori and John Stamos in recurring roles.

At the Emmys, the show has been submitted in the following four categories: Best Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, Best Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series (Donohue), Best Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series (Criss) and Best Original Music and Lyrics (“Mighty as Kong”).

“I’m a competitive guy,” says David Mandel, who took over as Veep showrunner in season five. “I want to be the funniest. With this final season, I was like, there’s a statement to be made, which is we’re fucking funny.”

That goes for everything from the last scene to the season’s trailer: “I’m not going to lie, I wanted to remind people we’re Veep.”  

After years of snubs, it looks like BoJack Horseman will finally win the Emmy horse race

BoJack Horseman has been around since 2014, but it didn’t get its first Emmy nomination for Best Animated Program until this year for the season five episode “Free Churro.” Are Emmy voters just not that into it? Maybe not before, but sometimes the hardest part at these awards is just getting the nomination. Now that it’s in most of the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed for their predictions are betting on it to win. As of this writing four out of the six Experts who have given us their forecasts in Creative Arts Emmy races are betting on BoJack to win this literal horse race: Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Robert Rorke (New York Post), Ben Travers (IndieWire) and Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby). Meanwhile, Eric Deggans (NPR) is predicting fellow first-time nominee Big Mouth and Chris Harnick (E!) thinks perennial nominee Bob’s Burgers will win for the third time after victories in 2014 and 2017. So why do so many think that BoJack will win when it has never even been nominated in this category before? Maybe because that’s exactly what happened last year. Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty didn’t get the time of day from Emmy voters until 2018 when the show got its first and only Animated Program nomination for the season three episode “Pickle Rick.” Then it won. This would also be a milestone moment for the ever-expanding Netflix, whose nominations for BoJack and Big Mouth are its first ever Primetime Emmy bids for Best Animated Program. So this would be yet another feather in the cap of the streaming service that has already won Emmys for dramas, comedies, movies, miniseries, reality shows, and documentaries.

GoldDerby Interview with Bob Odenkirk from Better Call Saul, August 15, 2019.

Length: 19:16 mins.