Is merritt wever gay

Merritt Wever On The Importance Of Her Nonconforming Role In ‘Godless’ & Her Upcoming Noah Baumbach Project

Merritt Wever has been in many, many fan favorite shows and films—The Excellent Wife, New Girl, Birdman, The Walking Dead, and Nurse Jackie, for which she won an Emmy—but it perhaps wasn’t until Scott Frank’s Netflix Western Godless that we’ve seen a different side to her work; one that allowed her to really show a new side to her multi-faceted acting chops.

The Godless action centers around the town of La Belle, which is mostly governed by women, following a massacre that killed the majority of men. As Mary Agnes, Wever brings a ballsy, outspoken ‘cool’ to the cast of characters, as she refuses to conform to gender norms, nor carry around her defunct husband’s last name “like a bucket of water”. She quite literally wears his pants as she and her co-star Michelle Dockery team up against notorious outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels).

While no second season of the limited series is yet planned, Wever is already engaged with multiple projects, including a new Noah Baumbach film (she previously starr

Emmy Nominated LGBTQ+ Characters: TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress

Five years after winning her first Emmy for “Nurse Jackie” (Best Comedy Supporting Actress, 2013), Merritt Wever pulled off a surprise second victory for her serve on the limited series “Godless.” Since her character on the 1880s Western drama was inarguably portrayed as a lesbian, she became the third and most recent gal to win the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress award for playing an LGBTQ+ role.

Since the late 1980s, the list of LGBTQ+ character portrayals that have merited bids in this category has arrive to include nine examples. While this amount is regrettably low, close to half of these performances being winning ones and the group’s relatively rapid expansion over the last decade are promising factors. Scroll through our photo gallery to detect out which other characters belong to this club.

The expansive majority of these characters are part of the sapphic subset of the LGBTQ+ community, and nearly all of them are not based on actual people. Still, their shared wealth of experiences remains legitimate and continues to diversify with each new addition.

Those of us who weren't already in love with Merritt Wever were definitely won over by her epic Emmys acceptance speech. And a Sept. 25 interview with Vulture just confirms how awesome this lady really is.

She spoke to Jennifer Vineyard about how it felt to win:

Sometimes I wonder what would possess become of me if I hadn't gotten [this role on "Nurse Jackie."] It's been really, really great, you know? I observe television, I perceive what the TV landscape looks enjoy, and I realize that I don't always see a lot of people like me, so I'm very grateful in many more ways than just one for this job.
JV: When you say "people favor me," do you mean body type? Because I believe the landscape is changing ...
Yeah, in part, sure. And you're right, the landscape's changing, but it ain't modifying all that quickly!

As Laura Beck at Jezebel pointed out, "How terrific would it be if the average size of people on television were the same as the average size of people you see walking around every day?"

Amen to that.

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8. [Advanced Preview] The Walking Dead: Dead City (June 18 on AMC)
☑ My score: 60/100
☑ 6 episodes x 40-something minutes x 1 season

I reviewed the new Walking Dead sequel series for TheWrap, if you’re interested. Despite it creature probably their strongest spin-off yet, it doesn’t bring anything novel to the table. To me, the Walking Dead universe desperately needs a new angle to their storytelling, particularly in a landscape where we have The Last of Us. Dead City isn’t without its draws, though: Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are quite talented at elevating mediocre material.

☑ Is it gay? Nope. Remember when Merritt Wever played a woman loving woman on the original series and got shot in the eye with an arrow mid-monologue? That’s not relevant here but I just wanted to mention it.

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