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Julianne Nicholson has a plan for her Emmys acceptance if she wins on Sunday night.
Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE at the inaugural Televerse Festival in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, the actress, 54, revealed the one regret she has from her first Emmy win: not giving her husband, Jonathan Cake, a proper shout-out.
Nicholson vowed to “talk more about” husband Jonathan Cake, whom she married in 2004 and with whom she shares two children, should she win for her role as Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond in Paradise.
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“I feel like the first time, I was so nervous,” she told PEOPLE of her past win for her role as Lori Ross on Mare of Easttown in 2021. “There’s a lot of people to mention and I feel like my husband got short shrift.”
“Honestly, I can’t do it without him,” she added of Cake, whom she has been married to since 2004 and shares two children with. “And I felt bad about that.”
This year, Nicholson is nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category alongside The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa, Severance’s Patricia Arquette, and The White Lotus’ Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood.
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Should she win, it would make her three for three in terms of her Emmy nominations.
In addition to her past win for Mare of Easttown, Nicholson picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series last weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys for her role as Mary Alice — a.k.a. Dance Mom — on Hacks.
Nicholson, who will be bringing Cake as her date to the Emmys this weekend, also told PEOPLE that getting ready for the prestigious awards show is “fun.”
“Yeah, I love the whole thing. My hair and makeup team I’ve been working with for 10 years and they make me laugh so much,” she said. “So it always feels pretty relaxed, actually.”
“Honestly, it just feels like a celebration. I feel like I wish the awards never even had to happen. We could all just live with a nomination,” she added. “No, I feel really lucky and it’s fun to go back and just be reunited with people you might not have seen for a while.”
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Paradise has been renewed for a second season. Nicholson plays Sinatra, the world’s richest self-made woman and the person making all the calls in a sprawling underground bunker in Colorado a few years after a doomsday event.
Sinatra is one of the people Secret Service agent Xavier Brown (Sterling K. Brown) suspects of killing the president, James Marsden’s Cal Bradford. This investigation is the central mystery at the heart of the show.
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Paradise can be streamed on Hulu, and the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards air live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and Paramount+.
