MJ Rodriguez Is First Trans Woman Nominated For A Lead Acting Emmy
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 05: Mj Rodriguez arrives at Disney’s “From Your Automotive” (FYC) Drive-in Sequence presenting FX and twentieth Tv’s “Pose” on the Rose Bowl on June 05, 2021 in Pasadena, California.
POSE’s MJ Rodriguez is making historical past being the primary brazenly trans lady nominated within the “Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence” class for her function as home mama Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista.
“I do imagine this can be a pivotal second. There’s by no means been a trans lady who has been nominated as a number one excellent actress and I really feel like that pushes the needle ahead a lot for now the door to be knocked down for thus many individuals — whether or not they be male or trans feminine, gender nonconforming, LGBTQIA+, it doesn’t matter,” Rodriguez told Variety. “A second like this extends and opens and elongates the chances of what’s going to occur and I imagine the Academy is unquestionably making it doable and their eyes are greater than open. Sure, I do imagine they’re going to proceed, and I additionally really feel like we’re going to maintain talking and inspiring and informing and educating folks world wide. I feel that’s crucial factor.”
In a press release per PEOPLE, the GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis spoke out on Rodriguez’s nomination calling it, “a breakthrough for transgender ladies in Hollywood, and a long-overdue recognition for her groundbreaking efficiency over the previous three seasons of POSE.”
POSE has been nominated for “Excellent Drama Sequence” for its remaining season which concluded on FX in June.
Billy Porter, 51, who portrays Pray Inform on POSE, was additionally nominated for “Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence”. The 51-year-old has been nominated twice earlier than and received in 2019, making him the primary brazenly homosexual Black man to win the class.
The POSE actress is nominated towards Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Nation), Uzo Aduba (In Remedy), Emma Corrin (The Crown), Olivia Colman (The Crown), and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Story).
The 73rd annual Emmy Awards will air reside from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and Paramount+.
MJ Rodriguez Is First Trans Woman Nominated For A Lead Acting Emmy
