Their Shows Might Be Over, but They’re Just Getting Started
Historic Emmy nominees Lily Gladstone, Kali Reis, Sterlin Harjo, and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai all see their celebrated shows ending as a new beginning for Native representation on TV.
By Marcus Jones August 24, 2024
'Reservation Dogs,' 'True Detective: Night Country,' 'Under the Bridge'
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However exciting it was for Lily Gladstone to receive her own first Emmy nomination for her work in the Hulu series “Under the Bridge,” the more meaningful aspect of her Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nod was seeing “True Detective: Night Country” breakout Kali Reis be honored as well. “I love that I’m not alone in this category. Having just had a bunch of first time historical monikers applied to me, there’s something that’s very lonely about that,” the recent Oscar nominee told IndieWire over Zoom. “So it’s great to carry that with another actress who turned in just this stellar performance, and then just represents a whole other aspect of how diverse and how important it is to highlight how diverse Indian country is.”
The conclusion of “True Detective: Night Country,” highlighting some of its Native actors that had mostly stayed in the background, was a twist the star did not see coming, but thoroughly appreciated. “Coming from the Native community, the nosy-ass aunties know everything. They know everything. If you want to know the tea, go to Auntie’s house,” said Reis. “Also on a serious note, the invisibility, the very thing that is something that we ‘are’ or people look at us or don’t look at Native people, especially Native women, as invisible, that invisibility is the very thing that was a superpower.” It reflected the ways in which indigenous organizations have to take finding answers for missing and murdered indigenous women into their own hands in a way Gladstone also found “invigorating.”
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