How Ethan Embry Staged His Unlikely Comeback

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With a hit TV show, a role on his favorite drama, and a new outlook on life, the star of Can’t Hardly Wait and Empire Records is reviving his career.

Ethan Embry is having the kind of year every actor dreams of.

In May, Grace and Frankie, on which he plays the lovable but lost recovering addict Coyote Bergstein, made its debut with a splash on Netflix. Less than three weeks after it began streaming, the show — which stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (as Coyote’s mom) — was renewed for a second season.
July reunited Embry with his Can’t Hardly Wait co-stars at a sold-out screening of the beloved 1998 comedy and saw the launch of a nationwide Infiniti commercial that had Embry riffing on his role as Rusty Griswold in National Lampoon’s Vacation series.

Then September marked the 20th anniversary of cult classic Empire Records, an Embry movie that flopped at the box office in 1995 but has grown to earn the adoration of a generation, and the Toronto Film Festival premiere of the actor’s upcoming drama, The Devil’s Candy.

And October brought Embry onto the Season 6 premiere of his favorite television show, AMC’s The Walking Dead, where he played Carter, an Alexandria resident who tried, and spectacularly failed, to usurp Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) power before — spoiler alert! — getting devoured by a zombie.