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. Chatting with Deadline, she expressed her “overwhelming joy.”
“It has been a priceless experience being a part of this show,” she added. “Every step of the way, I could feel the way the experience was transforming me, my life, and what feels possible. To be recognised by my peers in 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 group.
“We can see that when trans people are given the opportunity, we will grow into it and so far beyond 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.
“Reading the screenplay, I felt like it was the first time I’d ever read something that was written by someone who had actually known and loved a trans woman,” she mentioned. “I don’t know that Richard had to reach too far because he just had to reach within.”
Other than her work in Child Reindeer, the Mexican-born Mau has been busy along with her personal brief movies in addition to her much-celebrated work on HBO’s Genera+ion.
Chatting with GLAMOUR earlier this yr, Mau spoke about her journey in the direction of embracing performing as a trans girl.
“I have been blessed in my life to have been guided, supported, and simply held in times of great need by incredible women and amazing, queer and trans people who gave me the inkling of hope to believe that I could become who I want it to be, even if I didn’t really know what that was,” she mentioned. “I needed people to tell me that so much, in a world that tells you the opposite, as a trans person, as a queer person, as a woman as a Latina. In a world that tells me that that I should stay small, that that I should say ‘well, this is it, this is enough’, I really, really, really needed people to push me. So it’s it’s really thanks to those educators, healers and mothers that I am who I am today.”
Properly, Mau has definitely come a good distance since her profession started — and her historic Emmy nomination is proof that she is precisely the place is meant to be.
