If Emmy forecasters are correct, Chris Perfetti and the rest of the Abbott Elementary family will be making some red carpet rounds in coming months. And he’s ready.
“In our fourth year of being invited to these things, I still feel it’s less daunting and way more fun than it was the first time,” the actor told The Hollywood Reporter last week while attending the Mediterrane Film Festival’s closing Golden Bee Awards in Malta. “But I still feel like I have a responsibility to live up to the bigger purpose of what we’re all there for, and so I try to pay homage and be polite, but I try to express myself at the same time, and I’ve always thought that fashion is a way to do just that — to tell a story.”
Perfetti has been doing just that, turning heads for expressing an eye-catching personal style, evidence of which is seen below. The riskier the better, he says. “I kind of err on the side of more risk taking than not. [The red carpet] feels like a great opportunity for that. I’ve been blessed with so many talented geniuses, and when you find somebody whose work inspires you like that, you just have to kind of go with them.”
While speaking to THR in Malta, who presented at the Golden Bee Awards alongside Anna Camp, Perfetti was nearing the end of his Abbott Elementary hiatus and prepping to head back to work on the series for an upcoming season five. “I’m so proud of what we did in season four. I really feel like we didn’t drop the ball. God bless our writer’s room, they’re really doing so well by us,” explained the actor. “Our cast, we genuinely love each other, and we’re trying to make each other laugh. We really just blew the lid off of it last year.”
Perfetti at Elle Hollywood Rising presented By Polo Ralph Lauren in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 6, 2024.
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Perfetti at MPTF’s 18th Evening Before the Emmys in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2024.
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Perfetti at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium on Feb. 23, 2025.
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Perfetti at THR and SAG-AFTRA’s 5th Emmy Nominees Night on Sept. 13, 2024.
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Perfetti at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 5, 2025.
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Perfetti at the 76th Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 2024.
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Perfetti, winner of the Breakthrough Performance Award, at the Critics Choice Association’s inaugural celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Television at Century City’s Fairmont Century Plaza on June 7, 2024.
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Perfetti at MISCAST25 Gala at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on April 7, 2025.
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Perfetti at the 30th Critics Choice Awards at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar on Feb. 7, 2025.
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Perfetti at the Disney Upfront presentation at New York’s Javits Center on May 13, 2025.
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Perfetti attends ABC‘s Abbott Elementary Emmy FYC and finale presentation at L.A.’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 15, 2025.
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