Insecure Emmy Nominations 2022 | POPSUGAR Leisure

The ultimate season of “Insecure” was among the many honorees when the 2022 Emmy Award nominations have been introduced on July 12. The present, which wrapped up in December 2021, received nominations for excellent actress in a comedy collection for Issa Rae, plus excellent single-camera image enhancing for a comedy collection and excellent cinematography for a single-camera collection (half-hour). However the information was nonetheless disappointing to followers, for the reason that present missed out on a nomination for excellent drama collection, and nobody else from the forged obtained a nod.

Rae reacted to the brand new on Tuesday afternoon in an Instagram Story. “Emmy-nominated on a Tuesday?! On a Tuesday?” she stated with a giant smile. “I gotta give like to my ‘Insecure’ fam, to Prentice [Penny], Yvonne [Orji], Jay [Ellis], to our wonderful writers,” she continued. She additionally gave like to Nena Erb and Ava Berkofsky, who obtained the present’s different two nominations. Then, she shouted out different nominees, together with Robin Thede and “A Black Woman Sketch Present,” Quinta Brunson and “Abbott Elementary,” and her “Insecure” costar Natasha Rothwell, who was nominated for her work on “The White Lotus.” Rae completed her video with a shout out to “Simply everyone out right here successful, everyone black that is doing it,” a reference to her personal viral feedback about rooting for everyone Black on the 2017 Emmys.

“Insecure” has been nominated 11 occasions earlier than, together with two nods for Rae as lead actress and one for Orji as supporting actress. 2020 was the primary 12 months the present was nominated for excellent comedy collection for season 4. The present has solely gained as soon as earlier than, for enhancing that 12 months. It is disappointing, although not stunning, that the Emmys — which have been beforehand criticized for ignoring numerous actors and creators — did not acknowledge and honor this ground-breaking, hilarious comedy collection about Black girls and their experiences.

Again in October, Orji opened as much as POPSUGAR in regards to the final day on set for the present, which ran 5 seasons. She stated, “[It] was very emotional. Tears have been shed. For me, it was realizing [that] that is it, that is actually it.”

Orji defined, “We knew the tip was coming, however we received to the tip and it was like, ‘Wow, it is not the identical anymore. We now have to let one another go to do different issues.’ Love continues to be there, friendship continues to be there, however it’s not the identical. We had a shared expertise [where] all of us received to be the ‘first’ in so many various methods and now that has helped us to develop into the folks that we are actually.”

“Nothing will ever be the identical, however we cannot get these moments once more as a result of it already occurred for the primary time with one another, so now we now have to let one another go to go do different dope issues,” Orji stated. “So it was great.”

The 74th annual primetime Emmy Awards will air on NBC on Sept. 12.