Laverne Cox Tears Up Interviewing Nava Mau About Historic Emmy Nomination

It was an emotional second for Laverne Cox, E! Information’s Emmys purple carpet host, when actress Nava Mau joined her for a dwell interview.

In 2014, Cox grew to become the primary overtly trans individual to obtain an Emmy nomination for appearing. She scored her nom within the Greatest Visitor Actress in a Comedy Sequence class for enjoying Sophia Burset on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. She’d go on to obtain three extra nominations for the position.

Now, 10 years later, Nava Mau has the honour of being the primary trans lady up for Greatest Supporting Actress in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence. She was nominated for her position as Teri on Netflix’s Child Reindeer.

The symmetry of their nominations was not misplaced on Cox, who started her interview with Mau by repeatedly saying, “I am so pleased with you.”

The 2 actresses then took a second to debate the significance of Mau’s nomination and position within the hit restricted sequence. “What we have been preventing for as a group is to have the ability to inform tales that come from the center and which can be based mostly from a human basis,” Mau mentioned. “As a result of that is who we’re as trans folks. We’re people initially.”

Cox and Mau’s connection goes even additional than their nominations. As Cox famous within the interview, Mau labored on Disclosure, Netflix’s 2020 documentary about trans illustration on display screen that featured Cox.

Mau informed Cox of the documentary, “It modified my life.” Particularly, Mau praised the expertise as a possibility to see “trans folks in management” and trans professionals discussing their work in Hollywood, together with Cox.

“I received to see you stroll in your whole grace and your whole energy,” Mau mentioned. “I noticed that I may dream larger for myself than what I had dreamt for myself earlier than that, and it modified me eternally.”