Mj Rodriguez is a Style Icon in the Making

Mj Rodriguez is not any stranger to creating historical past.

After changing into the primary transgender actor to obtain an Emmy nomination for Excellent Lead Actress in 2021, she earned a historic win on January 9 when she grew to become the primary transgender lady to obtain a Golden Globe award.

The 31-year-old star received the award for Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Tv Drama Sequence for her position as Blanca Evangelista within the FX collection Pose.

Set in New York Metropolis, Pose follows the underground drag ball tradition of the 1980s and ‘90s and centres on tales of queer and trans communities throughout the AIDS disaster. Rodriguez’s Blanca is a housemother and nurse dwelling with HIV. Blanca kinds the Home of Evangelista — impressed by Canadian ‘90s supermodel Linda Evangelista — which gives a spot of refuge for LGBTQ youth.

After being shrouded with controversy final yr resulting from lack of illustration and variety, the 2022 Golden Globes was not the standard star-studded telecast we’re used to watching. Reasonably, the occasion was a closed-door gathering at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Resort — with no stars or viewers current — and outcomes have been introduced by way of social media.

Since there was no ceremony this yr, Rodriguez took to Instagram to react to her groundbreaking win. “That is the door that’s going to open the door for a lot of extra younger proficient people,” she wrote. “They’ll see that it’s greater than potential. They’ll see {that a} younger Black Latina woman from Newark, New Jersey who had a dream to alter the minds [of] others would WITH LOVE. LOVE WINS.”

 

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Rodriguez continued her response on Instagram Dwell. “That is for the LGBTQAI Black Latina, Asian, the various a number of stunning colors of the rainbow across the freaking world. This isn’t only for me. That is for y’all,” she mentioned within the livestream. “I’m very grateful to the various stunning those who got here along with this present.”

The groundbreaking drama, which aired its ultimate season in 2021, has been making historical past since its 2018 inception for assembling the biggest forged of transgender actors to ever seem as collection regulars on a scripted present. And it’s solely been up since then.

Over the course of its three-season run, Pose has garnered a devoted fanbase for shining a lightweight on the nuanced struggles that Black trans girls face and introducing a contemporary viewers to queer ballroom tradition.

Time and time once more, Blanca Evangelista’s transferring story and daring style captured audiences. It solely is smart that Mj Rodriguez would additionally serve accolade-worthy model moments.

With the assistance of stylist Katie Bofshever, Rodriguez’s purple carpet ensembles by no means shrink back from vibrant colors, playful textures, and daring cutouts. With a decidedly edgy but glamorous model, Mj Rodriguez is at all times making a press release — and that is only the start.

Beneath, scroll to see among the actor’s finest seems.

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