Following her greatest actress win, the 'Pose' star despatched an uplifting message to "my younger LGBTQAI infants."
Though a lot of Hollywood reacted with a shrug to Sunday’s announcement of the Golden Globe Awards winners amid a yr of criticism over inclusivity and ethics, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez was not one to downplay her appreciation.
The Pose star grew to become the primary trans lady to attain a Globe when she received for greatest actress in a TV drama, and he or she took to Instagram to have a good time the second. Rodriguez shared a photograph of herself that introduced the win, and he or she added an enthusiastic caption through which she expressed gratitude for the honour and likewise mirrored on its better significance.
“That is the door that's going to Open the door for a lot of extra younger proficient people,” she wrote. “They may see that it's greater than potential. They may see that a younger Black Latina lady from Newark New Jersey who had a dream, to alter the minds others would WITH LOVE. LOVE WINS. To my younger LGBTQAI infants WE ARE HERE the door is now open now attain the celebs!!!!!”
Rodriguez additionally celebrated with an ebullient Instagram Reside video, throughout which she devoted her win to the “many multi, stunning colours of the rainbow across the freakin’ world.”
Her Pose co-star Angelica Love Ross congratulated Rodriguez on Twitter, as did sequence co-creator Steven Canals.
Usually, the Globes are handed out in a splashy and boozy ceremony full of big-name stars, however that wasn’t the case this yr. In February 2020, the Los Angeles Instances scrutinized the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, the group behind the Globes, for its complete lack of Black members, together with calling consideration to the group’s ethically and financially problematic practices.
This led many in Hollywood to boycott the occasion, with longtime broadcasting associate NBC asserting in Could that it might not air the 2022 ceremony. As a substitute, the winners have been introduced throughout a non-public, celebrity-free occasion, and the outcomes have been shared on Twitter.
As for the restricted variety of different winners who acknowledged their very own victories on social media, the overall tone tended to be extra subdued. West Facet Story‘s Ariana DeBose, winner for greatest supporting actress, appeared to touch upon the criticism of the HFPAby tweeting that there “continues to be work to be performed” however that it’s “all the time going to be particular” to have her exhausting work appreciated.
In the meantime, DeBose’s West Facet Story co-star Rachel Zegler, who received for greatest actress, identified on Twitter that she received her Globe three years to the day after she was initially solid as Maria within the movie. “Life may be very unusual,” she wrote.