Jodie Foster Thanks Indigenous People For Sharing Their Stories With ‘True Detective: Night Country’ In Her First Ever Emmy Win
deadline.comJodie Foster has won her first Emmy. Foster, who won two Oscars for Best Actress for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, has finally triumphed at the primetime TV awards on the fifth time of asking in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie category.
Foster, who won the award for her role as Chief Liz Danvers in HBO’s , said, “This is an incredibly emotional moment for me, because True Detective: Night Country was just a magical experience, and it all comes from the top, the beautiful, wonderful, talented Issa Lopez.” She also thanked the show’s Icelandic crew as well as her “partner in crime” Kali Reis. “Mostly the Indigenous people and Inuit people of Northern Alaska, they just told us their stories, and they allowed us to listen.
That was just a blessing. It was love, love, love. When you feel that something amazing happens, it’s deep and wonderful, and it’s older than this place,” she added. RELATED: Jeremy Allen White Says ‘The Bear’ “Instills A Faith That Change Is Possible”; Wins Second Emmy For Lead Actor Comedy The actor has previously been Emmy nominated for producing Showtime television movie The Baby Dance in 1999 and directing Netflix’sOrange Is The New Black in 2014 as well as a Daytime Emmy nomination for AMC: Film Preservation Classics.
She beat out some pretty heavyweight competition in Lessons In Chemistry’s Brie Larson, Fargo’s Juno Temple, Griselda’s Sofia Vergara and Feud: Capote vs.
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