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“I’ve been taken by their work for years and I’ve borrowed from
them, so I’m just honored to be in the class," Tillman said.
Tillman, 40, thanked his mother in his acceptance speech, who he
told reporters backstage “was there for me when no one else was
and when no one else could be. There’s nothing like a mother’s
love.”
His win brought a total of eight Emmy awards for " Severance,"
which led nominations this year with a total of 27 nods. Britt
Lower also took home best lead actress in a drama for the show.
The Apple TV+ thriller series, centers on an office where
workers' memories are surgically divided between their work and
personal lives.
Tillman plays Seth Milchick, the floor manager who is considered
one of the show's main antagonists, given his loyalty to the
company, Lumon.
Milchick's Blackness was integral to the character's storyline,
Tillman said, adding that he hoped to portray the character as
“a man that was aware of his race and aware that he was in a
place where he was one of few.”
The second season explored “how race folds into the world of
Lumon,” he said.
“I never wanted to lose sight of that and I’m grateful that I
was a part of a team that also didn’t want to lose sight of
that," Tillman said.
Tillman studied medicine as an undergrad, before he found his
passion for acting, a career that he was told “leads to a dead
end.”
“I was actually inspired at Xavier University by so many of my
classmates who are now doctors and dentists, how they were
pursuing the thing that they’re passionate about, and I said,
‘Well, if they can do that, why can’t I do what I’m passionate
about?’” Tillman said.
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