Nava Mau has been nominated for her first Emmy for her heart-wrenching efficiency as Teri in Child Reindeer. Following Laverne Cox’s 2014 nomination for Orange Is the New Black in 2014, that is solely the second time a trans actress has been nominated in a performing class. It’s the first nomination for a trans Latina.
For Nava Mau, receiving the monumental nomination was, understandably, emotional. Talking to Deadline, she expressed her “overwhelming pleasure.”
“It has been a priceless expertise being part of this present,” she added. “Each step of the way in which, I might really feel the way in which the expertise was remodeling me, my life, and what feels attainable. To be recognised by my friends within the Academy is a celebration of that transformation.”
Mau added that she hopes her nomination will encourage extra alternatives for different members of the trans neighborhood.
“We will see that when trans individuals are given the chance, we’ll develop into it and up to now past any expectation,” she mentioned.
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She additionally praised Richard Gadd, who wrote and starred within the present, for his empathetic, sincere depiction of the trans expertise.
“Studying the screenplay, I felt prefer it was the primary time I’d ever learn one thing that was written by somebody who had really identified and liked a trans lady,” she mentioned. “I don’t know that Richard needed to attain too far as a result of he simply needed to attain inside.”
Except for her work in Child Reindeer, the Mexican-born Mau has been busy along with her personal quick movies in addition to her much-celebrated work on HBO’s Genera+ion.
Talking to GLAMOUR earlier this yr, Mau spoke about her journey in the direction of embracing performing as a trans lady.
“I’ve been blessed in my life to have been guided, supported, and easily held in instances of nice want by unbelievable girls and superb, queer and trans individuals who gave me the inkling of hope to consider that I might grow to be who I need it to be, even when I did not actually know what that was,” she mentioned. “I wanted individuals to inform me that a lot, in a world that tells you the other, as a trans particular person, as a queer particular person, as a lady as a Latina. In a world that tells me that that I ought to keep small, that that I ought to say ‘properly, that is it, that is sufficient’, I actually, actually, actually wanted individuals to push me. So it is it is actually because of these educators, healers and moms that I’m who I’m as we speak.”
Effectively, Mau has definitely come a good distance since her profession started — and her historic Emmy nomination is proof that she is strictly the place is meant to be.
