Maya has met with Vice President Kamala Harris, and admitted the politician was “lovely and cool” about her depiction of her on “Saturday Night Live.”
“We did meet during a fundraiser before the election over Zoom. She was quite aware that I was playing her and was so lovely and cool, and it was so exciting to talk to her and to meet her, and to get a chance to be a part of her orbit. But she’s so cool, she was great about it, and I think that’s always the mark of someone who knows that they’re impenetrable and they’re doing something great in the world because she knows I’m doing it with love and she’s so fantastic that someone is impersonating her,” Rudolph said.
Regina King was the most recent Black actor to win back-to-back Emmys for her work in “American Crime” in 2015 and 2016, while Uzo Aduba previously enjoyed consecutive wins for “Orange Is the New Black.”
The last person to win twice in the same category was Jean Smart for “Frasier” in 2000 and 2001.
