The up-and-comer won best actress in a short form comedy or drama series for '#FreeRayshawn.'
For one thing, it was one of two Emmys that night recognizing work on a Quibi show , the first such recognition ever accorded that struggling new service. For another, it was the first part of what proved to be an historicwon best guest actor in a drama series forBut what hasyet been noted is that the younger Cephas Jones, a 31-year-old up-and-comer, won for an episode ofin which she has less than 30 seconds of screen time and her character, Tyisha, speaks only three words.
Every Emmy-nominated performer is required to submit a specific episode for voters to consider before casting their final ballot; voters, in turn, are required to click a box that appears next to an affadavit swearing to the fact that they have watched at least that one episode submitted by each nominee, and their ballot cannot be submitted unless and until they have clicked that.
But it is certainly a bizarre situation that makes one wonder why Cephas Jones submitted this particular; why this submission wasn't flagged by the TV Academy panel; and whether voters nominated and honored her performance solely on the basis of the episode submission, which seems unlikely, or on the basis of the full season, or having not watched any of the show at all.
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