“I want to be the joy to people through my work,” Gianni Versace was once famously quoted. It’s a sentiment profoundly shared by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez, who brilliantly transformed himself into the famous Italian fashion designer on Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

The FX series, which explores the murder of Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan (played by Darren Criss) in 1997, received 18 Emmy nominations, the most of any limited series this year. Ramirez, along with Ricky Martin and Penelope Cruz, are all nominated in the best supporting acting categories for a limited series or movie. This is Ramirez’s second Emmy nomination.

The 41-year-old actor, who once played the Greek god of war Ares in Wrath of the Titans, gained 20 pounds for the role, but explains that after reading the script he knew he was in “for a very transformative

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Production is well underway on American Horror Story Season 8, which is officially titled Apocalypse, and creator Ryan Murphy has revealed the first image from the new season. Unlike previous seasons where we’re trying to unpack each new image for clues as to what to expect, Apocalypse is a reprisal of sorts as it unites the casts of Murder House and Coven for a new story. This image in particular is Coven-centric, as we see the principal cast of the show’s third season all back together again: Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Emma Roberts, Frances Conroy, Lily Rabe, Gabourey Sidibe, and the one and only Stevie Nicks.

This is mighty exciting for Coven fans, and everyone looks exactly how we left them. If you’ll recall, the end of that season found Paulson’s Cordelia Foxx assuming the

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Ricky Martin is one of ET’s featured first-time Emmy nominees.

At 46 years old, Ricky Martin is a first-time Emmy nominee for his stirring performance as Antonio D’Amico in Ryan Murphy’s anthology series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. The longtime singer has been acting on and off since his mid-‘80s Menudo days, including two notable stints on Broadway. On TV, however, he’s come a long way from his beefcake role on General Hospital in 1994 and shaking his bon-bon on Murphy’s FOX series Glee 18 years later.

“When they told me I was nominated and the list of incredible actors that are in the same category, what can I say, man?” Martin asks ET, referring to his fellow nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, including his ACS co-stars Edgar Ramirez, who plays Gianni Versace, and Finn Wittrock. “I feel like

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