Laverne Cox Tears Up Celebrating Nava Mau's Historic 2024 Emmys Nomination on the Red Carpet

Laverne Cox and Nava Mau worked together on the 2020 documentary "Disclosure"

Laverne Cox is feeling proud at the 2024 Emmys.

Cox, 52, who is interviewing many of the night’s nominees for E!’s red carpet coverage, had a moment to catch up with Baby Reindeer star Nava Mau, who is nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie at Sunday’s ceremony.

When Mau, 32, first stepped up to speak with Cox, the Orange is the New Black actress became emotional as the two hugged.

“I’m supposed to keep it together, I’m the host,” Cox said, fanning her face.

“I’m so proud of you,” she continued. “I’m so proud of you. This show is so incredible and the work that you do is so amazing.”

Cox then recognized the milestone she reached herself at the 2015 ceremony when she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting Emmy.

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“And 10 years later, I’m not the last,” she said with a smile. “You’re the fourth and you’re the first in this category.”

“I think that what we’ve been fighting for as a community, is to be able to tell stories that come from the heart and that are raised from a human foundation because that’s who we are as trans people," Mau said when asked how it feels to be nominated. "We are humans first and foremost and so that’s what I think is the best thing to celebrate about Baby Reindeer.”

“Yes, it’s an LGBT show, it’s a show that has a trans character on it and it's also a really good show and it’s something I am very proud of and ultimately I hope that we continue to get to be all that we are as trans people on screen.”

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The two then reminisced about working together four years ago on Cox’s Disclosure documentary, which Mau says “changed my life.”

“I walked on to that set, it was my first time being on a set of that scale, I had only ever been on a micro-budget short film set in Oakland before that. And I saw trans people that were in positions of leadership,” Mau said. “I got to sit and watch interviews of trans people talking about their lives, their histories, about their studies, about their craft. I got to see you walk in all of your grace and all of your power. I saw that I can dream bigger than what I had dreamt for myself before that. And it changed me forever.”

In 2014, Cox became the first openly transgender person nominated in an acting category at the Emmys, thanks to her performance as Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black. The award for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series award ultimately went to her costar Uzo Aduba.

This year, Mau is nominated for her performance as Teri in Netflix’s Baby Reindeer alongside fellow actors Dakota Fanning (Ripley), Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge), Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer), Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry), Diane Lane (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) and Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country).

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