Angela Bassett is now an Emmy winner.
Maya Rudolph Gets Career Emmy No. 6, Angela Basset Wins Her First at Creative Arts Emmys
Bassett won the award for outstanding storytelling in the National Geographic nature documentary "Queens" on Saturday, the first night of the Creative Arts Emmys. After her triumph, Bassett came backstage to the press room, where a reporter asked her what the win meant to her.
"We don't work for it, but we get it for all the hard work that we do," Bassett said. "Of course, it's not work that you do alone, even if it's for the storytelling. There's a whole team that chased me and believed in me and fought for me and worked with me to tell this amazing story of females in the wild kingdom, led by an all-female production team, a first in wildlife documentary filmmaking. That in itself was pretty inspiring to me."
Bassett was on hiatus from FX's "9-1-1" when she agreed to the project. Asked what prompted her to accept the project, she said with a laugh, "I was just so tired from chasing bad guys and being a cop. The idea of an all-female crew out in the wilderness telling this story and centering it around the matriarchs and the conservation that they did — it just touched my heart."
