'I want this love to be shouted from the tops of the mountains,' Mj Rodriguez says of her history-making Emmys nomination. 'I feel like this nomination is exactly that.'
from back in the spring, she said of a nomination, “I’m fighting for that. I think it’s time.”
She gets choked up. “Forgive me for getting personal, but I have lost a very key person in my life recently, and I feel like he is getting a front-row seat and has his hand placed all over this,” she says through tears. “I can’t be more happy that I get to be the example for what a human looks like.”
“I feel like now the industry sees it,” she says. “And they’re accepting it, you know? It’s amazing.”
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