Loki Star Sophia Di Martino Is Your 2022 Breakthrough Performance Winner

As a MTV Movie & TV Awards category, Breakthrough Efficiency tends to recognize the folks that made TV and film scenes their own, even as they weren't necessarily the top-billed stars. And this year, no one was more prepared to be recognized than English actress Sophia Di Martino for her portrayal of Loki's Sylvie, an alternate version of the title character whose anger fuels her as both a hilarious and fierce warrior.


"This is actually really heavy!" She mentioned about the Golden Popcorn as she took the podium for her acceptance speech, the latest in a long line of winners who've come to that realization upon being handed the coveted statue. Soon after setting it down intelligently, she went into her own story of portraying Sylvie and the story around her casting.


"I'm so grateful for this. I love played Sylvie, and I was nine months pregnant any time while they planned me the job," she mentioned before mentioning the challenges working mothers in film and television are usually saddled with. "My baby was three months old any time we began filming, so it's been quite a journey. This insinuates a lot to me."


To close, she shouted out Loki director Kate Herron and star Tom Hiddleston for "welcoming me so warmly" and "being so helpful all of the way through." Given her fierceness, humor, and dedication in the role, it made brilliant sense that trim be the one to walk away with the Golden Popcorn.


Di Martino beat out Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza, Ariana DeBose in West Side Story, Hacks's Hannah Einbinder, and Jung Ho-yeon in Squid Game in the category.


Last year, the award went to Bridgerton's Regé-Jean Page.


The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards are airing live from the Barker Hangar in L.A. Now on MTV, with the Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED to follow. Find all of the winners here.