Bella Ramsey is opening up about their opinions on having male and female-gendered awards classes.
The Last of Us star candidly got here out as non-binary and gender fluid whereas selling the present’s first season. During a Tuesday episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ramsey stated they “didn’t find it insulting” once they have been nominated in the most effective main actress class on the 2023 Emmys, including that it’s “important that we have a female category and a male category.”
“I think it’s so important that recognition for women in the industry is preserved,” they stated. “I think the gendered categories conversation is a really interesting one. I don’t have the answer, and I wish that there was something that was an easy way around it, but I think that it is really important that we have a female category and a male category.”
They added, “But then where do non-binary or gender non-conforming people fit into that?” The Emmy nominee stated they’ve “literally sat and tried to think my way to the answer” of how awards classes can turn out to be extra inclusive for non-binary folks “and haven’t got there,” throwing out the concept that actors may very well be grouped by their character’s genders.
“There’s a thing of like you could do it for the character portrayed, like best performance in a female character, but then what about when there are like non-binary characters on screen, which is few and far between at the moment, but then where does a non-binary person playing a non-binary character, like where do they fit into?,” Ramsey questioned. “I don’t know, it’s really complicated.”
At the 2023 Emmys, Ramsey turned the second nonbinary actor to be nominated in the most effective main actress class and the third nonbinary actor to be nominated for an Emmy ever. Later within the interview, the actor shared that they “never thought about pronouns really until season one of The Last of Us was coming out and it was a question that suddenly I had to choose what pronoun I wanted people to write about me with.”
“I was so stressed out about it because I didn’t know and I didn’t really care,” they added. Ramsey and Theroux additionally mentioned the time period “actress” versus “actor,” to which they stated, “I don’t think that those words have to be taken away.”
“I just find it a bit weird and a bit funny because if people call me an actress, I have a sort of like a gut, ‘That’s not quite right’ instinct to it,” Ramsey stated. “But I think that I just don’t take it too seriously in terms of like it doesn’t feel like an attack on my identity getting a thing with ‘actress,’ it’s just a funny thing that doesn’t really fit.”
