Angela Bassett is a first-time Emmy Award winner after taking house the award for greatest narrator on the 2024 Inventive Arts Emmys on Saturday. The actress was nominated for her work on Nationwide Geographic‘s Queens.
“It feels good; actually, actually good,” Bassett mentioned in her acceptance speech. “Thanks to Nationwide Geographic, Wild Star Movie, and all the administrators — all girls — who introduced this unbelievable story, this unbelievable docuseries centered on the ferocious and sumptuous issues within the animal kingdom. I couldn’t be extra thrilled and extra grateful.”
Bassett first mentioned no to the venture, telling The Hollywood Reporter in a earlier interview, “It was summertime. It was hiatus [for 9-1-1]. It had been an extended season. I used to be trying ahead to happening trip, spending time with the household, and downtime from work as a result of it’s a steady curler coaster. However they got here again round and despatched me the sizzle reel and I mentioned, ‘OK, let me put my full consideration on this for a second and see what the venture is precisely.” As soon as I did that, it didn’t go me by.’”
Queens, a seven-part sequence, tells the story of animal matriarchies throughout the globe and options an all-female manufacturing crew, which Bassett informed THR was “one of many huge attracts and highlights.”
“We don’t work for these, however we obtain them for all of the onerous work that we do,” Bassett mentioned of her win within the Emmy press room. “In fact, it’s not work that you just do alone, although it’s a narration, however there’s a complete crew that pursued me and believed in me, fought for me, and labored with me to inform this superb story of females within the wild kingdom, led by an all-female-led manufacturing crew crew, a primary in wildlife documentary filmmaking. In order that was fairly inspiring to me in and of itself.”
Bassett has acquired a complete of 9 Emmy nominations, together with a 2023 nomination for greatest narrator for her work on Good Night time Oppy.